Six killed, many injured, after train derails near Paris

A high-speed train derailed and hit a platform, south of Paris on Friday, killing at least six people and injured many more, the worst train accident in France for 25 years.

Witnesses said the scene resembled "a war zone", with the description of one of the survivorswalk to escape on a decapitated body a dump truck.
Rescue workers were at night in search of passengers who may be caught in the rubble.
The train was a regional service in Paris to address the Midwestern city of Limoges. Derailed as it passes through the station in Bretigny-sur-Orge, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Paris.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, said of the accident scene Friday night, told reporters: "The balance sheet is currently six dead, 30 injured, eight of them in serious condition."
The injured were all treated at local hospitals, he added.
The head of the SNCF, Guillaume Pepy, told reporters at the scene that six cars were derailed in the accident. Third and fourth car train derailed first and the others followed, he said.
Obviously shaken, he expressed his "solidarity with the victims and their families," the railroad.
"Railroad Disaster are something that bothers everyone and all who are committed to the national rail network service," he said.
"We do not know the reasons for that Derailment" Pepi said. Rail service, the judiciary and the security of France, BEA would be examined respectively.

Passengers Marc Cheutin, 57, told the AFP news agency he had to "go through a decapitated person" after the accident out of the car, was traveling in.
"Shortly after the game, as I get in my book, I felt a shock the first car that was hit on ... Then there was a second crash and the car, and then a third and fourth and the car approached its side, "he said.
A witness who had been waiting for a train at the station, Vianey Kalisa told the AFP news agency: "I saw a lot of wounded, women and children trapped inside (the cars).
"I was shaking like a child. Screaming people. Cara A man was covered in blood. Was like a war zone."
Immediately after the accident, stunned survivors, some bloody clothes were torn to pieces near the cars and crushed remains of the platform.
SNCF security director Alain Krakovitch praised the quick response of the driver.
"He was shaking in the middle and implemented regulatory measures in the space of a few seconds, ie a radio alarm and a warning light", thus preventing the traffic in the region.
His quick thinking to avoid collision with oncoming trains, Krakovitch reporters.
Early evening French President Francois Hollande visits the site and met with the authorities.
It was confirmed that three investigations were ongoing, but added: "We need to avoid unnecessary speculation What is known happens over time and the corresponding conclusions.."
Authorities said the derailment was clock at 5:14 (1514 GMT), minutes after the train left the station long distance from Paris-Austerlitz.
"The train arrived at the station at high speed. Was divided in two for an unknown reason. Part of the train to keep on rolling while the other is left behind on the platform," a police source told the AFP news agency.
But the SNCF source told the AFP news agency: "There was a collision and there was no problem with speed."
Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier, who visited the scene, said the train at 137 kilometers per hour (85 miles per hour) was traveling at the time of the accident.
That was below the limit of 150 kilometers per hour on the track.
About 300 firefighters and paramedics 20 teams of eight helicopters were used to treat the injured at the scene and the airlift of the most injured to nearby hospitals.
A total of 192 people were treated by emergency services, authorities said. There were 385 passengers on the train.
The accident happened so many in France traveled to the start of the summer holidays before Bastille Day, on Sunday.
In Brussels, the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, the president has his condolences.
"The train derailment casts a shadow on the vacation trips as his country prepares for its national day," he said in a message to Hollande.
The derailment was the worst train accident in France, since SNCF commuter train crashed into a stationary train at the Gare de Lyon Paris terminals in 1988, killing 56 people.