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Breaking news: Canadian town 'wiped out' as freight train carrying hundreds of tons of crude oil derails and explodes. (Daily Mail)
Explosions rock Quebec town of Lac-Megantic after train derailment. (Hamilton Spectator)
more, with pictures, at the linkThe center of a Quebec town has been wiped out, according to the mayor, after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in a fireball at 1am on Saturday.
Parts of the town were evacuated as fireballs shot several metres in the air, flames spread to nearby homes and thick acrid smoke filled the air.
Emergency workers helped about 1,000 residents escape Lac-Megantic, which is close to the Maine border and about 250km from Montreal.
It is not yet known if anyone was killed or injured in the blast, according to the Hamilton Spectator.
About 30 buildings in the town center were destroyed by the fire.
'When you see the center of your town almost destroyed, you'll understand that we're asking ourselves how we are going to get through this event,' the town's mayor, Colette Roy-Laroche, said.
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Explosions rock Quebec town of Lac-Megantic after train derailment. (Hamilton Spectator)