(Source: Bloomberg News, May 13, 2014)
OTTAWA — Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. and three of its employees have been charged with criminal negligence in connection with the derailment and explosion of a train in Lac-Megantic last year, Quebec’s prosecutor’s office said.
The railway and the employees are accused of having caused the death of 47 people, Quebec’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions said in a statement posted on the government’s website late last night.
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