At least six people were killed on Tuesday when a commuter train crashed into a car on the rails outside New York city, local media reported.
The driver of the car was killed when the train slammed into the vehicle around 6:30 pm (2330 GMT) and five passengers aboard died after flames ripped through a carriage, NBC New York reported.
Metro-North, the train operator, confirmed a Harlem Line train had struck a vehicle but did not immediately announce fatalities.
Authorities scrambled to help hundreds of shell-shocked passengers off the train, which had departed from Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) and passengers told NBC.
The collision occurred in Valhalla, just outside New York City.
