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Wendy Wu

Eight people were killed and three are still missing after a road collapsed near a subway line construction site in southern China on Wednesday evening.
A further nine people were injured in the incident in downtown Foshan, Guangdong province, which happened about 8.40pm, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday.
The eight casualties died at the scene, local authorities said. The wounded were taken to hospital and are said to be in a stable condition.
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The collapse of a near 30-metre section of the eight-lane road was caused by an inrush of water from leaking pipes that had damaged segments of a tunnel being built beneath it, the municipal government said.


Workers had been trying to stem the flow of water, but were unable to prevent the cave-in, it said.
The incident left a hole the size of two basketball courts and more than six metres deep, the television report said.
A rescue mission and investigation into the exact cause of the accident are under way, it said.
Foshan is in the industrial heartland of Guangdong, close to the financial hub of Hong Kong.
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The site of the collapse was in a central area of the city. The subway line under construction runs for 23km (14 miles) through the city north of the provincial capital Guangzhou.


The rapid expansion of subway networks in mainland Chinese cities has frequently led to cave-ins and other deadly accidents, and while Beijing has made considerable progress in improving industrial safety, scores of people are still killed every year in factories, coal mines and on transport network construction projects.
On Monday, eight people were killed and 10 were injured in a gas leak at a steel mill in Guangdong.
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Nine people injured, three still missing as 30-metre section of eight-lane road is washed away

This overview shows the accident site after a road collapse in Foshan in China's southern Guangdong province on February 8, 2018. Eight people died and three were missing in southern China after a water leak inside a subway station construction site caused a major road to cave in, authorities said on February 8. / AFP PHOTO / - / China OUT

=== NO ARCHIVE IMAGE === ATNX5 FOSHAN08 At least eight people have died in a road collapse in downtown Foshan City of south China's Guangdong Province, government authorities said Thursday. Photo: Weibo.

At least eight people were killed when a 30-metre section of an eight-lane road collapsed in downtown Foshan, southern China’s Guangdong province, on Wednesday. Photo: Weibo.

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Nine people injured, three still missing as 30-metre section of eight-lane road is washed away