{"id":150634,"date":"2015-05-13T05:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T05:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/13\/410800\/US-train-dead-injured-Philadelphia"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:30:20","slug":"five-dead-least-50-injured-us-train-derails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/five-dead-least-50-injured-us-train-derails\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead, at least 50 injured after US train derails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A US passenger train with more than 200 passengers on board has derailed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing at least five people and injuring more than 50 others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter confirmed at a news conference that at least five people were killed in the accident\u00a0on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an absolute disastrous mess,&#8221; Nutter said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said more than 50 people on board the train were taken to area hospitals, six of them critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they had no idea what caused the train wreck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not know what happened here. We do not know why this happened,\u201d Nutter told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/13\/410800\/US-train-dead-injured-Philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A US passenger train with more than 200 passengers on board has derailed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing at least five people and injuring more than 50 others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter confirmed at a news conference that at least five people were killed in the accident&nbsp;on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an absolute disastrous mess,&#8221; Nutter said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said more than 50 people on board the train were taken to area hospitals, six of them critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they had no idea what caused the train wreck.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do not know what happened here. We do not know why this happened,&rdquo; Nutter told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The Amtrak railroad company said there were 238 passengers and five crew members aboard its derailed No. 188 train on route from Washington, DC to New York.<\/p>\n<p>It said Amtrak service along the whole Northeast train corridor between New York and Philadelphia had been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Cheung, an Associated Press employee on the train, said he was fortunate to be at the back of the train and the front of it &ldquo;looks pretty bad&rdquo; with numerous casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage showed emergency personnel loading injured people onto stretchers and backboards.<\/p>\n<p>In March, at least 55 people were injured when an Amtrak train collided with a large truck that was stuck on the tracks in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>AHT\/AGB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-150634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}