Amtrak train collides with CSX freight train in SC

At least two people are confirmed dead and more than 110 people injured when a passenger train traveling through South Carolina collided with a freight train early Sunday. Amtrak train No. 91 was carrying 139 passengers and eight crew members from New York to Miami when it slammed into a CSX train and derailed.

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