One person has died after a train carrying US politicians to a retreat in West Virginia crashed into a rubbish lorry, the White House said.
Several dozen House and Senate Republicans were on the Amtrak train taking them to an annual retreat at a resort in West Virginia, west of the capital Washington, when it hit the lorry on the tracks.
No serious injuries were reported among the members of Congress or their staff on the train, the US Department of Transportation said.
It said the victim of the crash and another person who was seriously injured was among those on the truck.
"There is one confirmed fatality and one serious injury. There are no serious injuries among members of Congress or their staff," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement, adding that President Donald Trump has been briefed on the incident.
Amtrak said two crew members and three train passengers were hospitalised with minor injuries after the crash.
Vice President Mike Pence - the keynote speaker at the three-day retreat west of the US capital - was to fly in later in the day, and was not on the train.
House Republican Greg Walden tweeted a photograph of the scene, showing people standing off the train tracks next to a badly damaged truck, with debris strewn on the ground.
We're fine, but our train hit a garbage truck. Members with medical training are assisting the drivers of the truck. pic.twitter.com/0I9jOwHTmb
— Rep. Greg Walden (@repgregwalden) January 31, 2018
"The train hit a garbage truck, they're asking for doctors on the trains to help," said the Twitter feed of congressman Roger Marshall, who is also a licensed physician.
"Right now Dr Marshall is helping people who are injured."
Republican members of the House of Representatives and the Senate left Washington earlier bound for the historic Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, for their annual retreat.
