A Metro North passenger train has derailed in New York City, killing at least four people and injuring 63 others.
NY transport authority has said that five of the train’s seven carriages went of course in the Bronx area and an immediate emergency rescue operation is underway.
News station CNN have confirmed that four people have lost their lives in the accident.
Sources familiar with the investigation and rescue told the US news outlet that at least two of the dead appeared to have been ejected from the train.
ABC News have confirmed that the train was the 5.54am from Poughkeepsie, due to arrive at Grand Central Station.
The NYC Fire Department said the derailment occurred at 7.20am, and that 130 firefighters were now at the scene.
Initial reports claimed that carriages had entered into the water where the Harlem River meets the Hudson, however Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) have denied this.
Edwin Valero, an eye witness at the scene, told the Associated Press that at least one carriage had ended up a few feet from the edge.
Other eye witnesses and people in the area near Spuyten Duyvil station have began posting images of the crash online.
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Lead image courtesy of BBC News.
