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UPDATING: Train Carrying Congressional Republicans Hits Garbage Truck – One Truck Passenger Reported Dead

Traveling to a Retreat

A train carrying congressional Republicans to a GOP retreat in West Virginia has just crashed into a garbage truck, NBC News is reporting. The crash was near Charlottesville.

UPDATE: One of the people on the garbage truck is reported dead, two others who were on the truck are injured, according to The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe.

Politico identifies it as an Amtrak train and reports there are no serious injuries reported among the passengers. 

MSNBC notes “there appears to be some injuries.”

CBS has posted a photo of the truck:

UPDATE: 12:15 PM ET –
Latest update via NBC News:

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