"It appears Amtrak was on the wrong track," South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster told a news conference. He said the freight train, which had no one aboard, "was on the track it was supposed to be on." "The first engine of the freight train was torn up, and the single engine of the passenger train is barely recognisable." In December, three people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train derailed in Washington state. In late January, an Amtrak train carrying Republican members of the US Congress killed one person in a garbage truck with which it collided in Virginia.

Source: bd News24 February 04, 2018 11:48 UTC