One South Korean woman among four killed in New York train derailment

A South Korean woman was one of the four people killed after a New York City commuter train derailed early Sunday, the foreign ministry said Monday.

The Metro-North Railroad train heading to Manhattan ran off the tracks while rounding a sharp curve in the city's Bronx borough at around 7:20 a.m. (local time), killing two men and two women and injuring more than 60 other passengers.

"One of the four killed in the train accident was found to be a 35-year-old South Korean woman named Ahn Kisook, of Queens, she was nurse " an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. "she was on her way back home after night shift at nursing home in Brooklyn"

No other South Koreans were affected by the train derailment, the official said.

Ahn Kisook, of Queens, arrived in the U.S. a year ago and was working as a nurse in Brooklyn. She was among those killed in Sunday's Metro-North crash in the Bronx