UNITED STATES: Deaths as rail carriages fall on US motorway

Train carriages have plummeted on to a motorway in Washington state, causing “multiple” fatalities, police say. The train derailed and the carriages fell on to the I-5 highway below. Images from the scene show emergency services treating people on the ground. It appears that at least four carriages have left the track; one of them […]

Train carriages have plummeted on to a motorway in Washington state, causing “multiple” fatalities, police say.

The train derailed and the carriages fell on to the I-5 highway below.

Images from the scene show emergency services treating people on the ground. It appears that at least four carriages have left the track; one of them is upside down on the highway.

Several cars on the highway were struck by the derailed carriages, the Pierce County Sheriff’s department says.

Sheriff department spokesman Ed Troyer said that there were “multiple” fatalities on the train, but no motorists had been killed.

The fire department had taken many people out of the train and they had been taken to hospitals, he added.