At least three people dead and multiple injured when a train derailed in the US state of Montana, rail operator Amtrak says
In this photo provided by Kimberly Fossen people work at the scene of an Amtrak train derailment on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in north-central Montana. Multiple people were injured when the train that runs between Seattle and Chicago derailed Saturday, the train agency said.
At least three people have died and some passengers were injured after five cars of an Amtrak train went off the rails in north-central Montana, an official at a local sheriff's office said. The Empire Builder train derailed at 4 pm local near Joplin, a town of about 200, Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said in a statement on Saturday.
The accident scene is about 241 kilometres north of Helena and about 48 kilometres from the border with Canada.It was headed for Seattle from Chicago, media said.
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