1 dead, 1 hurt after becoming trapped under light rail train

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle fire officials say one person died and another was critically injured after they became trapped underneath a Seattle light rail train. The Seattle Fire Department said on Twitter at about 6:40 p.m. Friday that two people were being extricated from under the train near the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and South Alaska Street in the Columbia City neighborhood. Shortly before 7 p.m. fire officials said the people were quickly freed but that one person had died and the other was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition. No further information was immediately released.