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Investigation of Australian rail crash underway as toll revised down.
(From Agence France Presse)
The death toll from Friday's Australian train crash was revised down from nine to eight after the last of the bodies was extracted from the wreckage, police said here.
More than 40 passengers were injured when the double-deck commuter train derailed and slammed into a sandstone cliff south of Sydney on Friday. Three remain critical in hospital.
New South Wales police said they had revised down the number of passengers killed when the southbound train left the tracks four kilometres (2.5 miles) south of Waterfall Station on the Illawarra line.
"The earlier estimate of nine people killed was a result of extraordinary difficulties with disaster victim identification at the scene," police said in a statement.
The last body, believed to have been pinned under an overturned carriage, was removed early Saturday and authorities have shifted their focus to investigating the cause of the accident.
Emergency service personnel worked through the night, using three ...
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