Train derailment kills 4, injures 71

Four passengers died and at least 71 were injured after a train derailed in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region during a rain-triggered landslide, a railway official said.

The train coded 1473, from Xiangfan of central Hubei province to Zhanjiang of Guangdong province, derailed at 4:22 am in a narrow valley in Liuzhou of Guangxi.

"The landslide occurred so suddenly that it was impossible for local railway patrol staff to discover it and send off warnings to stop the train," the official, who declined to give his name, said.