San Francisco: 2 rail workers killed in accident

Two workers performing maintenance on the San Francisco commuter rail system were killed when a train struck them on Saturday, on the second day of a strike against the system that has snarled traffic across the region.

A Bay Area Rapid Transit agency employee and a contractor were checking a possible dip in the track just north of the station in suburban Walnut Creek when they were struck and killed by a BART train operating on automatic control during a maintenance run, the agency said in a statement. (Reuters)