About five people were said to have been killed and over 100 and something people hurt after an Amtrak train, carrying about 238 passengers and five crew members from DC to NY, derailed in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia on Tuesday nigh. All seven carriages of Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 derailed and came off the tracks near Frankford Junction on the 2000 block of Wheatsheaf Lane shortly after 9 p.m., according to wp and nbcphiladelphia.com.
Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter told a late-night news conference that five people had died and that six of the injured were in critical condition. Police chief Charles Ramsey said officers used “a large number of tourniquets” on the injured. “It’s an absolute disastrous mess,” Nutter said. “I’ve never seen anything so devastating.” According to the mayor’s count, about 150 people “self-evacuated” from the train, which Amtrak officials said carried about 240 people, including five crew members.
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