As the Metro Red Line train was leaving the Farragut North station on Friday at 10:13 a.m., the first two cars derailed. Leaving three minor injuries, and 345 passengers have been taken off of the two cars directly affected by the derailment and loaded onto the other four cars of the train. The station and the streets around it all have been reopened except for Connecticut Avenue between K and L streets.

“Fortunately our reports are that there have been no injuries,” Metro spokeswoman Lisa Faberstein. “The front wheels of the front car came offthe tracks. We do not know how it happened.”

Faberstein said the six-car train was likely filled with passengers, given the late start of the workday for federal workers after the region was hit by a blizzard on Wednesday. She said Metro was evacuating passengers after they cut electricity to the line and that they would be escorted by walking onthe tracks to the station platform.

“It’s early for us to know what exactly happened,” she told the television station.