At slightest 80 harmed as New York sight derails during morning rush

Members of a New York City Police Department and New York City Fire Department lift an harmed chairman divided from Atlantic Terminal, Jan 4, 2017 in a Brooklyn precinct of New York City. PHOTO: AFP

Members of a New York City Police Department and New York City Fire Department lift an harmed chairman divided from Atlantic Terminal, Jan 4, 2017 in a Brooklyn precinct of New York City. PHOTO: AFP

NEW YORK: A commuter sight derailed on Wednesday during a hire in Brooklyn and harmed scarcely 80 people, officials said, environment off a panic during a morning rush.

The Long Island Rail Road sight crashed around 8:30am (1330 GMT) during Atlantic Terminal in a heart of a New York borough.

“76 non life-threatening injuries reported during stage of LIRR sight derailment, Atlantic Terminal Brooklyn,” a New York Fire Department pronounced in a tweet.

Passengers rushed out as fume filled a tunnel. The impact focussed a train’s doors and crushed windows.

Some of a harmed were brought out on stretchers.

Commuter Aaron Neufeld pronounced on Twitter that a pile-up was “crazy”, though added, “Seems usually a few people are easily injured.”

New York’s puncture presentation complement warned of trade and movement delays and highway closures in a area.

In September, a sight derailed during rush hour as it entered a hire in Hoboken, New Jersey, nearby New York. One chairman died and 114 were injured.

An review into that incident, in that a sight entered a hire during scarcely high speed, is ongoing.

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