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Death toll rises to 13 in Canadian derailment; railway's chief alleges train was tampered with
The runaway train carrying crude oil that derailed in a Quebec town, killing at least 13 people and leaving dozens of others unaccounted for, was tampered with in some way, the company's chairman claimed in an interview published Monday.
Lac-Mégantic, Quebec - Oil Train Derailment
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Posted 09 July 2013 - 12:55 AM
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Posted 10 July 2013 - 01:38 AM
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Brakes had been disabled in fatal oil train crash
The air brakes on the runaway oil train that devastated a Quebec town early Saturday had been disabled by firefighters who were called to extinguish a blaze aboard one of the locomotives 90 minutes before the disaster, the head of the railway said Monday.
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Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 10 July 2013 - 01:41 AM
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Criminal probe opened in Quebec oil train inferno
As two more bodies were found in the ashes Tuesday, Canadian police said they had begun a criminal investigation into the runaway oil train that incinerated the heart of a close-knit town near the Maine border.
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Posted 10 July 2013 - 08:00 PM
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Officials: 30 missing in Quebec train crash presumed dead
Canadian officials told distraught families Wednesday that 30 people still missing after the fiery crash of a runaway oil train are all presumed dead.
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Posted 10 July 2013 - 08:22 PM
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Quebec Probes Explosion for Crime as Railroad Criticized
Police are investigating possible crimes in Canada’s worst rail disaster in 27 years as Quebec Premier Pauline Marois criticized the railway’s response to the crash that left as many as 60 people dead or missing.
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OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 11 July 2013 - 09:05 PM
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Railroad CEO says employee failed to set brakes as Quebec town mourns
Residents of the town of Lac-Megantic in Quebec were coming to grips on Thursday with the reality that 50 of their own were most likely dead in the aftermath of the worst railway disaster in North American in more than two decades.
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OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 11 July 2013 - 09:12 PM
Railway chairman: People in Canadian city 'wanted to throw stones at me'
Edward Burkhardt said he tried to get the people of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, to hear him, to try to understand that he had traveled to their town because he genuinely cared, he told CNN in an exclusive interview Thursday.
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Posted 12 July 2013 - 06:12 PM
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Posted 13 July 2013 - 07:42 PM
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17 still missing after fiery train derailment in Quebec
Canadian authorities say the remains of 33 people have now been recovered in the small Quebec town devastated by a fiery train derailment a week ago. Seventeen others are missing and presumed dead.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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