Canadian town remembers deadly train crash one year later


  • World
  • Monday, 07 Jul 2014

People touch a memorial monument after a memorial mass at the Sainte-Agnes church in Lac-Megantic, July 6, 2014. REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger

LAC-MEGANTIC Quebec (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered in the small town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec on Sunday to remember the victims of a fiery crude oil train crash that killed 47 people and destroyed dozens of buildings in the picturesque lakeside village.

In the early morning hours, survivors and family marched in silence along a newly-built boardwalk, past construction rubble and across the train tracks, where exactly one year earlier the runaway train derailed and exploded into a wall of fire.

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