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Three killed in China truck-train collision

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IANS Beijing

Three people were killed in China's Qinghai province when a truck collided with a train, heading from Lhasa to Beijing, railway authorities said.

The accident occurred in the morning when a truck went off an overpass and collided with a train, reported Xinhua citing officials.

According to the Qinghai railway bureau, a pickup truck in Wulan County, under Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan prefecture, lost its control and broke through guardrails in an overpass. It crashed with a train passing under it at about 8 a.m.

Rescuers found three people who were on truck as dead.

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First Published: Sep 22 2013 | 6:16 AM IST

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