Three killed in China truck-train collision

    By 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.