At least three people have been killed and 17 are missing, after a road caved in on a subway tunnel under construction in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.

About two thousand rescuers are trying to pump water out of the tunnel and haul vehicles out of the crater. All subway construction in the city has been suspended. The accident site is on Line One of eight subway lines which will be built in Hangzhou by 2050.

(CCTV November 17, 2008)