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A bid ran into a radical of railway workers connected Thursday (November 27, 2025), sidesplitting 11 and injuring two, officials successful China's southwestern metropolis of Kunming said, the deadliest obstruction mishap successful much than a decade.
The train, investigating earthquake detection equipment, deed workers connected a curved conception of way astatine the city's Luoyang Town railway station, the officials said.
The presumption successful Yunnan state has resumed mean services, and the origin of the mishap is being investigated, they added successful a statement.
China's obstruction web is the world's largest, spanning much than 160,000 km (100,000 miles) and racking up billions of trips each year.
Though praised for its efficiency, it has drawn scrutiny aft respective high-profile incidents, specified arsenic a 2011 clang successful the eastbound state of Zhejiang that killed 40 and injured 200.
Nine were killed successful 2021 erstwhile a bid successful the northwestern state of Gansu ran into workers connected a conception of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang railway.
