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3 people are injured in a fiery West Virginia train derailment caused by a rockslide

Smoke fills the sky after an empty CSX coal train hit a rockslide along tracks causing a fiery derailment, Wednesday, March 8, 2023, in a remote area just south of Sandstone, W.Va. (Jenny Harnish/AP)

SANDSTONE, W.Va. — An empty coal train hit a rockslide along tracks in West Virginia on Wednesday morning, causing a fiery derailment that injured three crewmembers, CSX Transportation said in a statement.

Four locomotives and 22 empty cars derailed in Summers County near the New River, CSX said. The lead locomotive, which carried a conductor, an engineer and an engineer trainee, caught fire and the crewmembers were being evaluated and treated for non-life threatening injuries, the company said.

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