A high-speed train derailed due to a mudslide in Southwest China’s Guizhou province on Saturday, killing the driver and wounding at least seven passengers.
The bullet train D2809 was running from China’s South Western Guiyang province to the Southern province of Guangzhou when the two carriages derailed due to a sudden mudslide at Rongjiang station, the state-run China Daily reported.
The train driver was killed, the report quoted the state-run CCTV news.
“Two coaches of D2809, a bullet train from Guiyang, SW. China’s Guizhou, to Guangzhou, S. China, derailed at a station in Guizhou due to a mudslide at 10:30 am on Saturday.
