Storm disrupts railway in central China

Heavy storms triggered flood in central China's Hunan Province Sunday, inundated parts of Jiaoliu railway(Jiaozuo-Liuzhou Railway), a major trunkline railroad in central and southern China.

Heavy rains poured down around 2:15 Sunday in Hunan, inundated parts of railway and track bed of Jiaoliu Railway in Gaoqiao Village, Qiancheng Township of Huaihua City, according to sources from Guangzhou Railway (Group) Corporation.

Freight trains were mainly affected on the railway, and only one passenger train was suspended for about five hours, an official of local railway department said.

Rescuers have been mobilized to the spot to repair the railway. The railway traffic is expected to resume at about 8:30 Sunday evening, local railway department said.

Jiaoliu Railway, linking Jiaozuo City, central China's Henan Province, and Liuzhou City, southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Automonous Region, runs north to south through Henan, Hubei and Hunan province and Guangxi region.