At least five people have been killed and around 50 more injured when an Amtrak passenger train derailed in Philadelphia.<br /><br /> “My train crashed”: Several injured after Amtrak train derails in Philadelphia: http://t.co/0dwDQOjYuG pic.twitter.com/1qI544mjZF— TheBlaze (theblaze) May 13, 2015<br /><br /> Up to seven carriages of the Washington to New York service are said to have left the tracks – one was described as having been bent into an L-shape by a witness.<br /><br /> Dozens of emergency personnel used flashlights to comb the area for survivors after dark. They used ladders to climb over the flipped trains.<br /><br /> Multiple fire engines, ambulances and police cars were deployed on the scene.<br /><br /> About 240 people were on board the train which operates without seat belts.<br /><br /> So far the cause of the accident is unknown.<br /><br /> Amtrak is a national publicly funded rail service, serving tens of millions of people every year.
