Accident in China kills 21 railway workers

BEIJING: At least 21 railway workers were killed when a vehicle transporting them to work overturned early Saturday in northwest China, state media reported.

Seven people were injured in the accident that occurred as the workers were being taken to a railway construction site in Lintao County, Gansu province, Xinhua news agency said. It was unclear how many workers were riding in the vehicle when it overturned, the report said.

According to Xinhua, the railway workers killed Saturday were working at a site on the Lanzhou-Chongqing line, but the report did not say if the line was a high speed railway.

China has developed its vast transport network at breakneck speed, building the world's largest high-speed rail system from scratch in less than a decade.