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Lac-Mégantic derailment
2013 CE · Canada, North America · Disaster
On July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a. m. EDT, an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1. 2% grade and derailed in downtown Lac-Mégantic, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars. Forty-seven people were killed.
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