Up to eight people are believed dead and dozens injured after a train packed with 385 passengers derailed in a Paris suburb.
French interior minister Manuel Valls said: "The death toll is evolving constantly at this point and unfortunately it will probably rise.
"At this stage there are seven people dead, several dozen wounded and some of them are serious."
SNCF spokesman Jean-Paul Boulet said the train was carrying some 385 passengers when it derailed at 5:15 p.m. (1515 GMT) and crashed into the station at Bretigny-sur-Orge, some 20 kilometers south of Paris.
Four of the train's seven carriages detached and piled up, he added.
Graham Hope, a passenger in the third carriages, told Sky News: "The carriage I was in was bouncing for several seconds before we came to a halt. Everyone was very calm. A couple of people were quite concerned, but we worked together to get out of the carriage...
"When I got out we could see the rest of the train was further up the line... I would be very surprised if people got out of the front carriage unscathed."
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