Bronx, NY – NTSB To Upright Train, Seek Other Possible Victims

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    Injured people are tended to by first responders near the site of the derailment of a Metro-North passenger train in the Bronx borough of New York, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)Bronx, NY – Federal investigators say the cars from a derailed New York City train will be turned upright to check for any other possible victims.

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    The National Transportation Safety Board held a briefing Sunday afternoon to discuss the Metro-North derailment earlier in the day.

    The train was rounding a riverside curve in the Bronx when it derailed, killing four people and injuring more than 60. A chain of toppled cars trailed off the track just inches from the water.

    Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the track didn’t appear to be faulty, leaving speed as a possible culprit for the crash.

    Officials say Sunday’s accident is the second passenger train derailment in six months for Metro-North — and the first passenger death in an accident in its nearly 31-year history.

    An Amtrak train, top, traveling on an unaffected track, passes a derailed Metro North commuter train, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013 in the Bronx borough of New York. Officials are standing on a curve in the tracks where the Metro North train derailed. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

    Emergency personnel remove a body from the scene of a Metro-North passenger train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. The train derailed on a curved section of track in the Bronx on Sunday morning, coming to rest just inches from the water, killing at least four people and injuring more than 60, authorities said. Metropolitan Transportation Authority police say the train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)


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