(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-06-08 20:36

CHENGDU  -- The Dazhou-Chengdu railway reopened on at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday after a train was derailed by a rock fall in southwest China's Sichuan Province earlier the same day.

The accident happened at around 2:40 a.m. on Sunday at Jintang County, more than 80 kilometers northeast of Chengdu, the provincial capital. The train's locomotive and 10 freight cars derailed, said a Chengdu railway administration official.

One railway worker was killed and a freight train driver was seriously injured. The train driver is in a critical condition in hospital, said an official with the Chengdu railway administration.

The official said continuous rains had caused the rock fall.

"We have no idea if the rock fall is related with the earthquake in Sichuan in May or its aftershocks," he said.

The accident led to the closure of the 386-kilometer section between Dazhou, in northeast Sichuan, and Chengdu.