9 dead in rail crossing collision

Officers investigate the scene after a bus and a freight train collided at a railway crossing in Heihe City in the northeastern Heilongjiang Province yesterday morning. The accident left nine people dead and 36 others injured, the local government said. All the victims were on the bus. The crossing was unguarded at the time and a crossing supervisor had failed to reach the area to warn vehicles of the approaching train, a senior railway official in Heihe said.