Suicidal rail crash driver charged with 10 murders

The suicidal man blamed for the chain-reaction train derailment that killed 11 people in Los Angeles has been charged with multiple counts of murder and could face the death penalty, the district attorney said today.

Juan Manuel Alvarez, 25, left his 4X4 vehicle on a rail track yesterday after changing his mind about committing suicide, authorities said. He was held without bail at a hospital’s jail ward after apparently slitting his own wrists and stabbing himself in the chest.