In Kunming, the capital city of southwest China's Yunnan Province, one driver was killed and another injured during a test run of a metro line, which was scheduled to open next month.

1 killed, another injured in SW China metro accident.

A local government spokesman said that part of a testing train on the metro line derailed. It caused the vehicle's heating device to fall and hit the drivers in the driver cabin. The top of the front carriage was crushed after the empty train derailed at around 9:00 a.m.

Tuesday, while the rest of the train was undamaged. The injured driver suffered a fractured nose and a bruise near the right eye. He was rushed to a nearby hospital and remained hospitalized there.

The local government has set up an investigation team to probe the accident. This was the third accident in two weeks relating to metro lines under construction in China.

Chen Junmin, driver of Kunming metro line, said, "My head is still aching now. The accident happened when we were running the train. An object appeared suddenly in front of us. We had an emergency stop. The object's speed was just too fast, we had no idea what it was. It was lying across the rails."

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