New Delhi, Nov. 27 -- Eleven people were killed and two others injured after a test train hit a group of maintenance workers on the track early on Thursday in China's southwestern city of Kunming, media reports said.

The train, conducting tests involving seismic equipment, struck the workers as it negotiated a curved section of the track.

The accident took place at the Luoyangzhen station in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, according to the China Railway Kunming Group Co.

The cause of the accident is under investigation, and the railway station has resumed operations, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. Authorities have reportedly identified it as the country's deadliest railway accident in more than a decade.

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