London tram derails, police say ‘some loss of life’
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:53 am
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Garry KLondon tram derails, police say ‘some loss of life’
Associated Press 6:44 a.m. EST November 9, 2016
London — A tram derailed in south London before dawn on Wednesday, resulting in “some loss of life” and injuring more than 50 people, police and emergency services said.
Emergency workers were still at the scene of the derailment in Croydon more than six hours later, trying to free two people trapped in the wreckage of the two-carriage train that tipped on its side next to an underpass.
British Transport Police said they had arrested a man — reportedly the tram’s driver — and rail accident investigators were probing the cause of the derailment.
“A number of people have been taken to hospital with injuries and sadly it looks as though there has been some loss of life,” Assistant Chief Constable Robin Smith told reporters. He said it was too early to confirm the number of dead.
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