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(Source: Canadian Press, September 17, 2013)

MONTREAL — The families of several victims of the deadly rail crash in Lac Megantic are opposing a Quebec committee’s bid for official standing at a railway’s bankruptcy proceedings in the United States. The families of 18 victims of the July 6 derailment and explosion told a U.S. court in Maine that they object to the Quebec group’s efforts to be appointed as an official creditors’ committee representing the provincial government, the municipality and some wrongful death and personal injury claimants, along with those who had property damage.

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