Catastrophe in Canada as tanker train derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic town
At least one person died and 80-100 are missing in the Canadian town of Lac-Mégantic from Quebec province, after a 77-tank cars train loaded with oil derailed Saturday morning in the center of this town, causing several explosions that destroyed about 30 buildings, according to station Radio Canada (scroll down for videos).
Tanker train loaded with petroleum products derailed and burst into fireball in Lac-Megantic (Credit: Twitter)
The spokesman of the company Montreal Maine & Atlantic, which operates the train, admitted that the train was moving entirely unattended on autopilot and with no conductor in command. According to an official of the company, the train consisted of 77 cars and five locomotives.
“Train engineer stopped for the night and tied it 11 kilometers away from the Lac-Megantic before he checked into a motel Saturday night”, the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway said in a statement. “The train had stopped for a crew change.”
“An hour later, it tragically slipped downhill into the town”, the company said. “The runaway train, which was pulling more than 70 tankers of crude oil, then derailed, leveling the downtown.”
Witnesses say the six explosions were heard over the night. There was created a one-kilometer radius evacuation perimeter around the crash site, 1,000 out of the 6,000 inhabitants of the town were forced to leave their homes.
If cialis purchase online once taken the medicine, the effect starts in an hour and remains up to 5 to 6 hours. Now, you find out for more order cialis should know that the “things” don’t necessarily matter. You also were told that the gallbladder is only a storage viagra online free container for bile. In order to ensure the safety of generika cialis 20mg human health.
Canadian Firefighters, assisted by colleagues from the U.S., intervened, but they warned that some other tanker cars in the area could explode. Also, some of the oil transported by rail convoy reached the nearby river which crosses the city.
Video: Oil train disaster: Horror scenes in the lakeside town of Lac-Megantic, Canada
Video: Tanker train with crude oil derails, explodes in Lac-Megantic
Freight train derailment trigers massive evacuation