Two killed in train accident USA

- An American passenger train partially derailed Sunday after a collision with an excavator in the vicinity of the city of Philadelphia. Two employees of the railway company Amtrak working are thereby killed on the track and about thirty passengers were injured, US media report on the basis of communications from the emergency services.

The train was en route from New York more than 340 passengers to Savannah in Georgia. Rail traffic between New York and Philadelphia was shut down after the accident. The exact cause of the accident is under investigation.