Post date: Jul 12, 2013 6:15:28 PM
A still photograph shows a man being rescued after a train derailed at a station incentral France, killing seven people.
NEAR PARIS, FRANCE (JULY 12, 2013) (SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE) - Seven people died and several dozen were injured when a train derailed at a station in central France on Friday (July 12), the Interior Ministry said.
A photograph posted on Twitter by Aicha Kurdish shows a man being pulled out of the wreckage.Interior Minister Manuel Valls said the death toll was expected to rise. Several dozen people were wounded, some with serious injuries, he said.
The train -- a regional service that travels more slowly than France's TGV express trains -- veered off the track as it pulled into the station at the town of Bretigny-sur-Oise. It was en route from Paris to the city of Limoges.
Passengers who spoke to French media from the scene said it was travelling unusually fast as it approached the station.
TV images showed one of the carriages smashed against a platform at Bretigny-sur-Orge station, 26 km (16 miles) south of Paris. Trapped passengers were still being helped to safety.