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WHITEMARSH TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — A freight train derailment in southeast Pennsylvania early Monday spurred precautionary evacuations, but officials said no injuries were reported and there was no known hazard to the public.

The 40-car CSX train, which was operating on tracks owned by Norfolk Southern, derailed around 4:50 a.m. in Whitemarsh Township. More than a dozen cars appeared to be off the tracks.

It wasn’t immediately known what was inside them. Hazmat teams were at the site, but it wasn’t immediately clear if anything was leaking from any of the cars. The cause of the derailment was under investigation.

General view of part of the village of Brienz-Brinzauls below the rockfall "Brienzer Rutsch", in Switzerland, Friday, June 16, 2023. On Thursday night, a large part of the rock masses fell towards the village. The rock masses just missed the village and left behind a meter-high deposit on the main road near the school building. No one was injured since the village was evacuated on May 12. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)

Authorities say a huge mass of rock slid down a mountainside above a Swiss village that was evacuated last month, stopping just short of the settlement.

Firefighters help passengers near a train tunnel after a a fire broke out in a train forcing rescuers to evacuate the 151 people on board, in Fritzens near Innsbruck, Austria, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (Georg Koechler/Zoom.Tirol via AP)

A train is being recovered from an Austrian tunnel where it got stuck when a fire broke out, forcing rescuers to evacuate the 151 people on board.

FILE - Residential buildings stand in front of the "Brienzer Rutsch" the rockfall danger zone in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland, Friday, May 12, 2023. Residents of a Swiss village that faces a threat of a massive rockslide have been allowed back for the first time since they were evacuated on May 12 — but only for 90-minute visits. Local authorities allowed visits on Wednesday, June 7 to Brienz, home to less than 100 people, so that people could get essential things from their houses, for example. (AP Photo/Arnd Wiegmann, file)

BERLIN (AP) — Residents of a Swiss village under threat from a massive rockslide were allowed back Wednesday for the first time since they were evacuated last month, but only for 90-minute visits.

Nigerians who were evacuated from Sudan arrive at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, May 5, 2023. Many Africans escaping the conflict in Sudan that erupted with little warning last month faced a long wait - three weeks for some - to get out and severe challenges on the way as their governments stuggled to mobilize resources. (AP Photo/Gbemiga Olamikan)

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Pauline Hungwe huddled in the bathroom of her apartment in Sudan, terrified and only peeking out of a window for a second to see the walls of nearby buildings disintegrate as they were hit by artillery fire.

Norfolk Southern — and the entire rail industry — has been under intense scrutiny since one of its trains derailed and caught fire in February in Ohio, creating towering black smoke, forcing evacuations and raising environmental worries.

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