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U.S. capital shocked by deadly subway train collision (2)
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An injured man is carried away at the site where two subway trains collided on the Red line between the Fort Totten and Tacoma stations in the northeastern part of Washington D.C., on June 22, 2009. (Xinhua/Zhang Yan)
The accident took place just before 5 p.m. eastern time (2100 GMT), on an above-ground light-rail track on the Metro system's Red Line near the border with Takoma Park, Maryland, not far from the Fort Totten Station.
At the time, both trains were on the same track, and one of them was stationary when the crash happened, said John Catoe, the Metro Authority's general manager.
The impact was so severe that rescuers had to cut through the trains to get people out from the wreckage. The Metro Red Line has ceased operation for at least Monday night.
Officials suspect there may be other corpses trapped inside the wrecks so the final death tally will probably grow.
But they said they do not know the cause of the collision yet and are not likely to know the cause for days as the investigation unfolds.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it will take part in the investigation and FBI agents were at the scene Preliminary investigations by the Department of Homeland Security show there was no indication of anything other than an accidental collision, though more details need to be sorted out.
It was the second Metro crash that involves fatalities in the 33-year history of the transit authority.
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