A South Korean
passenger train that took a curved section of track at three times the
recommended speed derailed on Friday, killing an engineer and injuring eight
people, police and rail officials said.
According to the national rail operator, KORAIL, the locomotive and four of the train’s seven carriages jumped the tracks near Yulchon station, some 330 kilometres (200 miles) south of Seoul.
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carrying 27 people, including two locomotive engineers, one of whom was killed
in the accident. Yonhap news agency quoted police as saying the train was
rounding a bend at 127 kilometres per hour, when it should have been moving at
less than 50kph.
The second engineer was reportedly in a serious condition, while another seven people suffered mostly minor injuries.
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