Archive · 27 Nov 2025

China's Deadliest Rail Tragedy in a Decade

China's Deadliest Rail Tragedy in a Decade

A test train in China hit a group of maintenance workers early on Thursday.

This happened in the city of Kunming.

Eleven workers were killed, and two were hurt.

The train was testing special equipment for earthquakes.

The accident is being investigated.

This is the worst train accident in China in over ten years.

The train station is open again.

China has a big train system, and bad accidents are rare now.

But there have been some serious accidents in the past few years.

The last big one was in 2011, where a fast train crashed into another train and killed 40 people.

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