A high-speed Amtrak train struck and killed two teenage girls near Philadelphia.
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Officials say the Acela train traveling from Boston to Washington, D.C., hit the two girls around 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Norwood, about 10 miles southwest of Philadelphia.
Interboro School District Superintendent Nancy Hacker says the 10th-graders had been in school earlier in the day, but left at some point. She doesn’t know what they were doing on the tracks, which aren’t far from the school. A third girl was with them and reported the accident.
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The girls’ names have not been released.
Train traffic had to be stopped after the accident. Amtrak spokeswoman Tracy Connell says all tracks were reopened by 1 p.m. and service has returned to normal.














