8 injured as train derails in HK

A passenger train derailed during the morning rush hour in Hong Kong yesterday leaving eight people injured, authorities said. Images from the scene showed three carriages off the tracks and zigzagged across the rails near Hung Hom station in Kowloon. Five hundred passengers had been evacuated from the train.  The cause of the derailment was still under probe but there was no immediate suggestion of foul play after previous attacks by pro-democracy protesters on the mass transit system.