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Train Derailment in France Injures 13

by Tina Kells | July 3, 2009 at 07:07 pm

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A train running between Cahors and Paris, France, derailed causing 13 injuries. Five people were sent to hospital for treatment, two of them with serious injuries. Three wagons derailed after the train struck a trailer of hay that had accidentally fallen on the tracks.

The French train accident came just days after a tragic explosion at a train station in Viareggio, Spain killing 22 and injuring many more.

Five people were hospitalised but only two had very serious injuries, police said.

The train was carrying some 450 passengers, according to the state rail company, SNCF.

Rail traffic was disrupted and some 150 workers were busy overnight trying to clear one of the two blocked tracks.

The derailment followed the disaster in Tuscany earlier in the week, when more than 20 people were killed in an accident in which a train carrying a cargo of gas exploded, shooting flames into homes close to the track.