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(OFFICIAL)-China collapse kills nine rail workers
11 Mar 2009 04:29:37 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Corrects with Xinhua saying accident happened on railway linking Shanghai and Nanjing, not Shanghai and Beijing)

BEIJING, March 11 (Reuters) - A building collapsed at a construction site along a railway line linking Shanghai and Nanjing in eastern China on Wednesday, killing nine workers, state media reported.

Four workers were missing and 21 were being treated in hospital after the collapse in the early hours in Lucheng in the province of Jiangsu, of which Nanjing is the capital, Xinhua news agency said.

The agency said its earlier report, that the accident happened on a high-speed rail link joining Shanghai and the capital, Beijing, was wrong.

China is ramping up railway construction as part of a 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) stimulus plan announced in November to boost domestic demand in the face of flagging global growth. (Reporting by Yu Le; Editing by Nick Macfie)


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