A Metro-North passenger train has derailed in the Bronx area of New York City, with a number of injuries being reported. Several cars plunged into the river, authorities said.
UPDATE: At least two died, a New York City police source familiar with the investigation and rescue told our source
Reports
are emerging that 30 people have been injured following the derailment
in the Bronx, but this information has not yet been confirmed. A
passenger who was on the train, Frank Tatulli, told Eyewitness News he
takes the train every Sunday morning, and that it was travelling at a
higher rate of speed than it normally does.
Tatulli said he got out of the train on his own, and suffered head and neck injuries. The
train was heading towards Grand Central Station, when it came off the
tracks on what has been described as a "problem curve" on the line.
Accordig
to RT, Rebecca Schwartz, a witness at the scene, told the AP news
agency that some of the carriages were submerged in water and that
numerous emergency vehicles were at the scene.
There is no information yet on how many people were travelling on the train. The
derailment happened just north of Manhattan on Sunday morning.
According to ABC, the train was the 5:54 from Poughkeepsie to Grand
Central and was due to arrive into Grand Central at 07:43. The
line involved in the accident serves Metro-North’s Hudson line, which
serves dormer towns like Croton-Harmon, Peekskill, Ossining and Yonkers.
Metro-North
tweeted: "Hudson Line Srvc is currently suspnded south of Crotonharmon
due to train incident at Spuyten Duyvil More info will be provided as we
get it" Spuyten
Duyvil is a neighborhood in the Bronx. Metro-North's Hudson line serves
New York City and Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties, ending in
Poughkeepsie. The
Metro-North noted the incident on its website with a note that "Hudson
Line Customers will experience indefinite delays south of Croton Harmon.
More information will be provided as it is obtained."
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