In Canada, the derailment of a freight train killed two people
In Canada North of Vancouver island with derailed freight train, CBC News has reported citing local emergency services.
As a result of incident, according to them, two people died, three were seriously injured. All the victims were taken to hospitals.
The incident, as noted by CBC News, occurred at 8:45 local time in the village of Voss. At the moment the causes of the incident, according to the publication, installed.
2 confirmed dead after train derails logging on Vancouver Island https://t.co/WvR2kCSfKX pic.twitter.com/4tgVv4sDpC
— CBC News (@CBCNews) 20 APR 2017
Derailed train, as noted by CBC News, was carrying timber and wood. Also there were employees of a canadian logging company Western Forest Products. This information, according to the publication, confirmed representatives of the company.
The rest of the details and circumstances of incident are not reported.
Earlier, on March 24, in new York derailed several carriages of passenger train, EN route from Boston to Washington. Then in the incident, according to rescuers, “serious injury” is not got nobody. The cause of the incident was that during the “morning rush hour” “on a tangent” two trains collided.