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Amtrak Train Crash Philadelphia

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Six people are dead and more than 140 hospitalized following a commuter train derailment Tuesday night in northeast Philadelphia. There were 243 people on board Train 188, which departed Washington D.C.’s Union Station on it’s way to New York. All seven cars came off the tracks.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said will be no Amtrak service this week through Philadelphia as teams from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Railroad Administration have investigate to determine what caused the crash.