BEIJING At least two carriages of a passenger train fell into a river Thursday after floods knocked out a bridge in southwestern China, but there were no fatalities, state media reported.
The accident happened in Guanghan, a city about 50 kilometers 30 miles north of the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu, when floods loosened piers on the Shitingjiang bridge, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The website of the provincial propaganda department said no fatalities were reported by railway officials.
The train was traveling from Xian in northwestern Shaanxi province to Kunming in southwestern Yunnan province.
China has been hit hard by floods and landslides in recent months that have left hundreds dead and washed away settlements in some parts of the country. The storms have caused tens of billions of dollars in damage.
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