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3 killed, dozens hurt in Amtrak train crash in Missouri
An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides, officials said.
Two of those killed were on the train and one was in the truck, Missouri State Highway Patrol spokesman Cpl. Justin Dunn said. It was not immediately clear exactly how many people were hurt, the patrol said, but hospitals reported receiving more than 40 patients from the crash and were expecting more.
Amtrak's Southwest Chief was carrying about 207 passengers and crew members when the collision happened near Mendon at a rural intersection on a gravel road with no lights or electronic controls, according to the highway patrol. Officials were still trying to determine the exact number of people aboard. Seven cars derailed, the patrol said.
Rob Nightingale said he was dozing off in his sleeper compartment when the lights flickered and the train rocked back and forth.
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“It was like slow motion. Then all of a sudden I felt it tip my way. I saw the ground coming toward my window, and all the debris and dust,” Nightingale told The Associated Press. “Then it sat on its side and it was complete silence. I sat there and didn’t hear anything. Then I heard a little girl next door crying.”
Nightingale was unhurt and he and other passengers were able to climb out of the overturned train car through a window.
The collision broke the dump truck apart, he said.
“It was all over the tracks,” said Nightingale, an art gallery owner from Taos, New Mexico, who said he rides Amtrak regularly to Chicago.
It's too early to speculate on why the truck was on the tracks, said National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy. A team of NTSB investigators will arrive Tuesday, she said. Trains won't be able to run on the track for “a matter of days” while they gather evidence, she added.
At one point, KMBC-TV helicopter video showed rail cars on their side as emergency responders used ladders to climb into one of them. Six medical helicopters parked nearby were waiting to transport patients.
Close to 20 local and state law enforcement agencies, ambulance services, fire department and medical helicopter services responded, Dunn said. The first emergency responders arrived within 20 minutes of receiving a 911 call, he said.
Passenger Dian Couture was in the dining car with her husband celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary when she heard a loud noise and the train wobbled and then crashed onto its side.
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“The people on our left-hand side flew across and hit us, and then we were standing on the windows on the right-hand side of the car," Couture told WDAF-TV. “Two gentlemen in the front came up, stacked a bunch of things and popped out the window and literally pulled us out by our hands."
Passengers included 16 youths and eight adults from two Boy Scout troops who were traveling home to Appleton, Wisconsin, after a backcountry excursion at the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. No one in the group was seriously injured, said Scott Armstrong, director of national media relations for the Boy Scouts of America. The Scouts administered first aid to several injured passengers, including the driver of the dump truck, Armstrong said.
High school students from Pleasant Ridge High School in Easton, Kansas, who were headed to a Future Business Leaders of America conference in Chicago, were also aboard, Superintendent Tim Beying told The Kansas City Star.
Cheryl Benjamin was on her way home to East Lansing, Michigan, after an Alasksan cruise and a trip to Disneyland. She said she felt a bump, then heard a squeal, then looked out the window and saw the cars in front of her falling to the right. Then her car fell, the last to derail. It all took about 45 seconds.
Benjamin told The Associated Press that the passengers organized themselves to escape the cars. Some of the Boy Scouts on board helped her climb out of the train and onto the ground. She was spending Monday evening in a local high school gym, where community members had brought in food for the passengers as they waited for buses to take them to hotels.
Republican state Rep. Peggy McGaugh was at the high school. She said locals heard about the crash and started frying chicken, making sandwiches and delivering pallets of water.
“Being the small community this is, nobody wants to be the hero but everyone wants to help," McGaugh said.
Mike Spencer, who grows corn and soybeans on the land surrounding the intersection where the crash occurred, said everyone in Mendon understands that the intersection is dangerous, especially for those driving heavy, slow farm equipment. The approach to the tracks is on an inclining gravel road and it’s difficult to see trains coming in either direction, he said.
Spencer said he had contacted state transportation officials, Chariton County commissioners and BNSF Railway, which owns the track, about the potential danger. Spencer, who is on the board of a local levy district, said the dump truck driver was hauling rock for a levy on a local creek, a project that had been ongoing for a couple days.
Amtrak is a federally supported company that operates more than 300 passenger trains daily in nearly every contiguous U.S. state and parts of Canada.
It was the second Amtrak collision in as many days. Three people in a car were killed Sunday afternoon when an Amtrak commuter train smashed into it in Northern California, authorities said.
The Southwest Chief takes about two days to travel from Los Angeles to Chicago, picking up passengers at stops in between. Mendon, with a population of about 160, is about 84 miles (135 kilometers) northeast of Kansas City.
Bid to take selfie from moving train leaves teen dead in Chuadanga
A 17-year old boy died falling from a moving train while taking a selfie in Chuadanga.
The deceased was identified as Rohan, 17 , a student of class X and son of Rayhan Hossain of Paschimpara village in Jibannagar upazila, said Mohammad Abdul Khaleque, Officer-in-Charge of Jibannagar police station.
The accident occurred around 5:30 pm near Farm Para area in Chuadanga municipality area, he said.
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Rohan was at the door of Khulna-bound Goalanda mail train. He slipped from the running train while trying to take a selfie, according to witnesses.
Locals immediately brought him to Chuadanga Sadar hospital with a critical head and left leg injuries, said Dr Nurjahan Rumi, a doctor of the hospital.
Rohan succumbed to his injuries around 10:30 pm while shifting to a Dhaka hospital, said Sabed Ali, his uncle.
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Train derailment in east Iran kills at least 10, injures 50
A passenger train partially derailed in eastern Iran early Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 50 more, including some critically, authorities said.
The report said the number of casualties could rise, though initial details about the disaster involving a train reportedly carrying some 350 passengers remained unclear.
Four of the seven cars in the train derailed in the early morning darkness near the desert city of Tabas, Iranian state television reported. Tabas is some 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran.
Rescue teams with ambulances and helicopters had arrived in the remote area where communication is poor. At least 16 people suffered critical injuries, with some transferred to local hospitals, officials said.
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The derailment happened some 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside of Tabas on the rail that links the city to the central city of Yazd. Photos from the scene, published by the Young Journalists Club associated with state TV, appeared to show train cars on their side as rescuers tried to care for the injured.
The report said the crash is under investigation. Initial reports suggested the train collided with an excavator near the track, though it wasn’t immediately clear why an excavator would have been close to the train track at night. One official suggest it could have been part of a repair project.
Iran’s worst train disaster came in 2004, when a runaway train loaded with gasoline, fertilizer, sulfur and cotton crashed near the historic city of Neyshabur, killing some 320 people, injuring 460 others and damaging five villages. Another train crash in 2016 killed dozens and injuries of scores of people.
Iran has some 14,000 kilometers (8,700 miles) of railway lines throughout a country about two and a half times the size of Texas. Its rail system sends both people and goods across the country, particularly in rural areas.
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Iran also has some 17,000 annual deaths on its highways, one of the world’s worst traffic safety records. The high toll is blamed on wide disregard for traffic laws, unsafe vehicles and inadequate emergency services.
Iran, already straining under U.S. sanctions over its collapsed nuclear deal, has been mourning the deaths of at least 41 people killed in a building collapse in the country’s southwest.
60-yr-old woman crushed under train in Thakurgaon
A 60-year-old woman was crushed under the wheels of a train at Thakurgaon railway station on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Rashida Begum, wife of Yusuf Ali of Akcha-Bakserhat village in Sadar upazila.
Witnesses said Rashida came to see off her son Rabiul Islam who was going to Dhaka.
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When she tried to get off the moving train hurriedly she fell on the rail tracks and was crushed under its wheels .
Assistant station master of Thakurgaon railway Anup Basak said that the body will be handed over to the family with the permission of the authorities concerned.
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2 crushed under trains in B’baria
Two people were crushed under the wheels of separate trains at Alamnagar and Jatrapur areas in Ashuganj upazila of Barhmanbaria district on Tuesday.
One of the deceased was identified as Kaiyum, 55, of Sylhet district while identity of another deceased could not be known.
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In Jatrapur, a 25-year-old unidentified youth was killed after being hit by Chattogram-bound ‘Mahanagar Prabhati’ train while crossing the rail tracks in the morning, said Sub-Inspector (SI) Salauddin Khan Noman, in-charge of Brahmanbaria railway station police outpost.
In Alamnagar, Kaiyum was killed after being hit by another train around 9:30 am while crossing the rail tracks, said the SI.
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The bodies were sent to Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy, the SI added.
3 of a family crushed under train in Tangail
Three members of a family were crushed under the wheels of a train at a level crossing at Hatita under Kalihati upazila of Tangail on Monday.
The deceased were identified as Tayebul Hossain, 53, his daughter Tahmina, 23, and her 7-month-old son Tawhid of Garatto village under Ghatail upazila of the district.
Shafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Bangabandhu Bridge East Police Station, said a Jamalpur-bound train knocked them down at noon while Tayebul along with his daughter and grandson were passing the level crossing by a human hauler near Bangabandhu Bride East zone leaving Tayebul and Tawhid dead on the spot.
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Seriously injured Tahmina was rushed to Tangail General Hospital and doctors declared her dead on arrival.
Tangail railway police outpost in-charge ASI Saiful Islam said on information, police recovered the bodies and they will later be handed over to the family after legal procedures.
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NGO worker crushed under train in Rajshahi
A 45-year-old man was crushed under the wheels of a train at a level crossing in Rajshahi city on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Farooq Hossain, an official of a non-governmental organization of the city.
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Rakibur Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Rajshahi Railway Police Station, said the train hit the man while he was crossing the level crossing on a motorcycle at Dingadoba Eidgah area in the evening, leaving him dead on spot.
There was no gateman at the level crossing, he added.
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The body was sent to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) for an autopsy.
A case will be filed in this regard, he added.
Several people killed in train derailment in Hungary
A train derailed after striking a vehicle in southern Hungary early Tuesday, leaving several people dead and others injured, police said.
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The accident occurred just before 7 a.m. in the town of Mindszent. Police said a van drove onto the train tracks and was struck by a train, which derailed from the force of the collision.
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Three schoolgirls run over by speeding train in Cumilla
Three girls returning home from school were run over by a speeding train in Cumilla on Wednesday.
The three -- Meem (12), and Tashifa and Rima, both aged 11 -- were students of Bijoypur Government Primary School in Cumilla's Sadar Dakkhin upazila.
The unaccompanied minors were supposed to cross the Bijoypur level crossing in the upazila on the way home but they took a shortcut that claimed their lives, police said.
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The accident occurred around 11.45am when the Chattogram-bound Mahanagar Probhati train from Dhaka hit the three while they were crossing the railway track near the level crossing, said Proshanto Pal, additional superintendent of Cumilla Police.
On information, police rushed to the spot and took the bodies into custody.
As the news of the accident spread like wildfire, angry locals blocked the Cumilla-Noakhali railway tracks, disrupting vehicular movement in the upazila too.
Woman loses legs under wheels of train in city
An unidentified woman lost both her legs under the wheels of a train at Khilgaon railgate area of the capital on Sunday noon.
She is aged around 20, could not be identified yet, said police.
Mehedi Hasan, sub-inspector (SI) of Shahjahanpur police station, said the woman, draped in a white cloth, was lying unconsciously on the railway line in the Khilgaon railgate area with her legs severed from her knees around 2:30pm.
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After receiving a call from the National Emergency Service 999, police took her to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), he added.
Later, she was shifted to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) where she is currently undergoing treatment.
Efforts are on to identify the victim, said the SI.
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