Russia Today: Four tanker cars of petroleum exploded in the east Canadian province of Quebec after a train derailed, destroying some buildings nearby and leaving at least one dead. A security zone has been imposed with about 2,000 evacuated from their homes.
The blast and heavy fire occurred shortly after 1 am (05:00 GMT) when the 73-tanker train with five locomotives derailed while passing through the French-speaking Lac-Megantic, a lakeside town of about 6,000 people in the province of Quebec near the Maine border.
“It’s dreadful,” Lac-Megantic resident Claude Bedard told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “It’s terrible. We’ve never seen anything like it. The Metro store, Dollarama, everything that was there is gone.”
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