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Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

2013 oil train crash in Québec, Canada

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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