Falling rock derails train in French Alps, two dead


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  • Sunday, 09 Feb 2014

A derailed tourist train in the French Alps killed two and injured at least seven people caused by a huge falling rock, which partly pushed one of its carriages over the edge of a mountain slope in Annot, February 8, 2014. REUTERS/Olivier Anrigo

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - A huge falling rock derailed a train in the French Alps on Saturday, killing two people and partly pushing one of its carriages over the edge of a mountain slope, officials said.

Nine people were injured, one of them seriously, in the accident, which occurred on Saturday morning on a train line popular with tourists between the villages of Saint-Benoit and Annot in southeastern France, the officials said.

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