New York: At least six persons have been killed and several others injured when a commuter train hit a car on the tracks in New York suburb, resulting in a fire that engulfed the lead car of the train.

A Metro-North train that had departed from the busy Grand Central Station in Manhattan at 5:45 in the evening yesterday rammed into a car on the tracks in Valhalla, a suburb of New York City. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said that the gates at the railway crossing came down on top of the car, which was stopped on the tracks.