8 people injured after train derails near Hong Kong's Hung Hom MTR station

Firefighters and workers of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) work at the site of a train derailment accident in south China's Hong Kong, Sept. 17, 2019. A train carrying hundreds of passengers derailed in Hong Kong's Kowloon during the rush hour on Tuesday morning, injuring at least eight people onboard. Of those injured, five passengers, including one male and four females, needed to be taken to the hospital for treatment and were "in conscious condition," said Cheung Kwong-yuen, a senior officer of the Fire Service Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government. (Xinhua/Lo Ping Fai)