A passenger train has derailed in New York, killing four people and injuring 63 others as it came to rest just inches from the water, authorities havesaid.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the deaths at a news conference at the site of the crash near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx.
He said authorities believed everyone at the site had been accounted for and that investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were en route. Three of the dead were found outside the train and one inside.
Mr Cuomo said: “Four people lost their lives today in the holiday season, right after Thanksgiving.”
Eleven of those hurt were believed to be critically injured and another six seriously hurt, according to the fire department.
The train driver was among the injured.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said the big curve where the derailment occurred is in a slow speed area.
The black box recorder should be able to tell how fast the train was travelling, she added.
The derailment of the southbound Hudson Line train was reported at about 7.20am on Sunday. It left the town of Poughkeepsie at 5.54am and was due to arrive at 7.43am at Grand Central Terminal in midtown Manhattan.
Four or five cars on the seven-car train derailed about 100 yards north of the station, the MTA said in a news release.
However, none of the cars entered the Hudson or Harlem rivers, which are adjacent.
The train appeared to be going “a lot faster” than usual as it approached the curve coming into the station, passenger Frank Tatulli told WABC-TV.