Five people have reportedly been confirmed dead and about 146 others injured after an Amtrak train carrying 248 passengers and five crew members going to New York from Washington DC derailed from its track in Philadelphia, USA yesterday night around 9.45pm.
The Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter the most probable cause of the accident was a separation of the engine cabinet from its body while it was moving. This cause it to derail from its track. See more pics after the cut...
"This was an absolute disastrous mess. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Many of these folks are not from Philadelphia. It is a devastating scene down there. We walked the entire length of the train area, and the engine completely separated from the rest of the train, and one of the cars is perpendicular to the rest of the cars. It's unbelievable. We do not know what happened here. We're not going to try to speculate about that." he said
In a separate reaction, the Philadelphia Fire Department Deputy Commissioner Jesse Wilson. said
"They're in pretty bad shape. You can see that they're completely, completely derailed from the track. They've been destroyed completely. The aluminum shell has been destroyed and they've been overturned completely.".
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