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US Amtrak train derails in Philadelphia, five killed
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A passenger train has derailed in
Philadelphia, killing at least five people and injuring dozens of
others, officials in the US city say.
Up to 10 carriages of the Washington-New York Amtrak service went off the track on Tuesday evening.
Emergency officials and fire-fighters are at the scene looking for passengers who may be trapped in the wreckage.
More than 240 people were on board Train 188, the officials say. It is not known what caused the derailment.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it was dispatching a team of investigators to the crash site.
'Mangled up'
The train derailed in a suburb of Philadelphia, shortly after leaving the city's main station.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said at least five people died.
More than 240 people were on board the Washington-New York train, officials say
One witness said the front of the train was 'a complete wreck'
The train crashed close to the scene of one of the worst train crashes in US history
Dozens of people were taken to hospital, six in a critical condition
Some passengers managed to leave the train unassisted
"It is a devastating scene," he told reporters. "Never seen anything like this in my life."
"We
walked the entire length of the train area. The engine [is] completely
separated from the rest of the train and one of the cars is
perpendicular to the rest of the cars. It's unbelievable."
Mr
Nutter also said that, according to preliminary information, 243 people
were on the train. Not all had been accounted for, he said.
A fire official was quoted as saying that more than 50 people were taken to hospital, six of them critically injured.
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Media captionPhiladelphia Mayor Michael Nutter gives details of the derailment
Television
pictures from the scene showed injured passengers being taken away on
stretchers and fire-fighters using ladders to search for those trapped
in wreckage.
Many others appeared to have minor injuries.
Patrick Murphy, a former US congressman, tweeted that he was on the train when it crashed.
"Im on @Amtrak train that just crashed. Im ok. Helping others. Pray for those injured," he wrote.
Associated
Press employee Paul Cheung said he was fortunate to be at the back of
the train and the front of it "looks pretty bad", the news agency
reported.
Mr Cheung said he saw "some people mangled up".
He said just before the crash the train "started to decelerate, like someone had slammed the brake".
"Then suddenly you could see everything starting to shake.. You could see people's stuff flying over me."
Mr Cheung added that the front of the train was "a complete wreck. The whole thing is like a pile of metal".
The
crash took place close to the scene of one of the worst rail accidents
in US history. In 1943, 79 people were killed when a train travelling
from Washington to New York derailed.
Amtrak is a national publicly funded rail service, serving tens of millions of people every year.
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