U.S. passenger train derails in Nebraska, 22 lightly injured
10:18, 27 August 2011
WASHINGTON. August 27. KAZINFORM Twenty-two passengers were lightly injured on Friday after a train derailed in the central U.S. state of Nebraska, local media reports said; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The derailment of the Amtrak train, with 175 passengers and 17 crew members on board, was caused when it struck a demolition crane in southwest Nebraska. Two locomotives and three passenger cars were off the rails but no major injuries were caused, local officials were quoted as saying.
The train was running on the route from Emeryville, California to Chicago, when the accident occurred at about 8 a.m. local time near Benkleman, near Nebraska's border with the states of Kansas and Colorado; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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