Three killed and dozens injured as passenger train is derailed in US state

Workers at the scene where an Amtrak train was derailed after striking a lorry (Charlie Riedel/AP)

Three people have been killed and dozens more injured after a passenger train travelling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a lorry and derailed in a remote area of Missouri, officials said.

Two of those killed were on the Amtrak train and one was in the lorry, said Missouri State Highway Patrol spokesman corporal Justin Dunn.