Still unfolding.. Makes you wonder if that Dump truck (loaded with large boulders) was placed there..??

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By Steve Almasy, David Williams and Pete Muntean

CNN

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There are multiple fatalities and at least 50 people who were injured after an Amtrak train derailed Monday in Missouri, Eric McKenzie, the superintendent with Chariton County Ambulance Service, told CNN.

Amtrak said in a statement the train collided with a dump truck at a public crossing near the city of Mendon at about 1:42 p.m. CT.

Eight cars and two locomotives left the track "after striking a truck that was obstructing a public crossing near Mendon, Missouri," company officials said in an updated statement.

Amtrak had said earlier that there were approximately 243 passengers and 12 crew members onboard the train.

He said the truck looked like it had big boulders in it.

"It hit something major to cause ... every car to go off," he said.