At least four people were killed on Sunday and 63 injured, 11 of them critically, when a passenger train heading into New York City derailed in the Bronx, SIA reports citing The Guardian.
President Barack Obama said his thoughts and prayers were with the friends and families of the victims of the derailment. A White House statement said the president was briefed on the accident on Sunday morning and would continue to stay in touch with New York officials throughout the day.
Two carriages were flipped onto their sides in the early morning incident,which occurred at 7.20am about 100 yards north of Spuyten Duyvil station on the Hudson line of the Metro-North Railroad. The New York Fire Department, which coordinated a rescue effort involving hundreds of firefighters, police and railway workers, said 63 people were hurt when the seven-carriage, southbound 5.54am service from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan's Grand Central Station left the rails on a sharp bend.
Three of the dead were killed as they were thrown from the train, according to FDNY chief of department Edward Kilduff, who said he believed all the passengers and train crew were accounted for after a rescue operation that included divers searching for survivors in the adjacent Harlem River, and that he thought the casualty count was unlikely to rise further. At a press conference three hours after the derailment, officials said numerous passengers had been taken away on stretchers to local hospitals.
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