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(Source: Associated Press, November 5, 2012)

LESTER, Iowa — Evacuations forced by the derailment of 22 rail cars in far northwest Iowa ended Monday, a county official said. Twenty-two cars on a BNSF Railway train of 100 cars derailed Sunday morning, including one that spilled liquefied petroleum gas. Fears of a resulting explosion or fire prompted evacuations within a mile of the site two miles south of Lester. No injuries were reported.

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