BEIJING, China — A train struck a stalled minibus at a railway crossing in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, killing 28 passengers and injuring 11, a wire service reported.
The crash occurred at about 11 a.m. on Monday in the town of Artux, 2,100 miles west of Beijing near China’s western border, said a town official reached by telephone. She would give only her surname, Zhang.
The privately owned bus was trying to beat the train through the crossing when it stalled, Zhang said. The train was bound from the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi to Kashgar, a city near Artux.
Zhang said she didn’t know whether the bus driver survived the crash.