NINE DEAD AFTER TRAIN CRASHES INTO RAILWAY WORKERS.

Reports say at list nine people were killed in a railway accident early Friday morning in China’s Gansu province, when a train rammed into on-site workers.

According to report from local authorithies says the train, which was on route from Urumqi to Hangzhou, crashed into railway workers at around 05:25 on Friday (21:25 GMT) in Jinchang city.

Medical and emergency teams have been deployed to carry out rescue efforts.

The Chinese netizens are questioning how the accident could have happened.

“If the workers were carrying out maintenance work, then the train drivers should have known about it. How could this have happened? That’s nine lives gone!”, someone wrote on microblogging platform Weibo.

“Who is responsible and what has he been doing?” was question from someone demanding accountability.