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US Derailment Kills At Least One, Injures 90
At least one person was killed and 90 other people were injured as a train derailed in Iowa State of the United States early Sunday.
The train was headed westbound from Chicago to Emeryville, California, when the derailment occurred at about 12:50 a.m. local time in Adams County, some 40 miles southwest of Red Oak. It was carrying 195 passengers and 13 crew members.
Two locomotives and 15 cars derailed. Rescue work was hampered because the cars ran off the track into farm fields where there are no real roads.
The victims were transported to six area hospitals, some by helicopter. Two of the passengers were in serious condition.
As the cars buckled and twisted, some skidded sideways down a 7. 5-meter embankment adjacent to the tracks. One car twisted sideways across the tracks, while another dangled from the elevated track.
One person died at the scene while several others, including a 47-year-old woman and her teen-age daughter who were seriously injured, were taken to hospitals in Omaha, Nebraska and Des Moines, Iowa.
The cause of the derailment was not immediately known. Investigators from the U.S. National Transportation and Safety Board were en route to the crash site.
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