The death toll from a train derailment in China rose to 19, Xinhua Chinese official news agency said on Sunday.
A landslide caused a train from Shanghai to the tourist city of Guilin in south China, to derail.
At least 71 people were injured, 11 severely, as the locomotive and eight carriages of the train went off tracks in the southeastern Jiangxi province.
Earlier in the day rescuers expressed a fear that the death toll might further rise.
"We are afraid the casualty may soon rise, as four of the derailed train cars were severely deformed in the accident," a police officer told Xinhua.
"Each of the train carriages has 118 seats. It is not yet immediately known how many passengers were on board," he added.
The area has been hit by heavy rains in the past few days, which have already caused flash floods in low-lying towns and villages in the area.
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti)
