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Toll from Canadian Train Derailment, Oil Blaze Hits 13

HeadlineJul 09, 2013

The death toll from the derailment of a train carrying crude oil in Canada has reached 13. A police spokesperson in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, said dozens remain missing.

Benoît Richard: “We are still talking about around more or less 40 people that are reported missing and that we don’t know their whereabouts.”

The train was carrying crude oil from North Dakota when it derailed and slammed into the center of town. If the missing turn out to be dead, it would be Canada’s worst accident since the Swissair crash of 1998.

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