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2012-08-04 07:50 By Chen Xin (China Daily)

A freight train hit and killed nine people at the Funing section of the Datong-Qinhuangdao Railway in
North China's Hebei province on Friday morning, the Ministry of Railways said.

The accident happened at 5:28 am, and four other people were injured, a ministry statement said.

The injured have been sent to hospitals for emergency treatment and their lives were out of danger as
of 4 pm, according to a statement from the Qinhuangdao municipal government.

The ministry said torrential rain destroyed paths near their homes, so people from three villages had
to walk close to the railway tracks. When they reached the Miwuhe railway bridge, they were hit by a
freight train.

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"The connection between the villages and the outside world had been cut off, so the villagers could
only walk along the narrow paths on the two sides of the railway bridge and that led to the tragedy,"
an unnamed local villager was quoted as saying by Xinhua News Agency.

"Some villagers were killed by the train and some were knocked down from the 10-meter high bridge,"
the villager said.

Further investigations are under way.