
The centre
of a small town in Quebec, Canada, has been destroyed, after a train carrying
tons of crude oil derails and explodes in the early hour of Saturday morning.
The train
was in the town of Lac-Megantic, close to Quebec's border.
Around
1,000 local people were evacuated from their homes as fireballs
shot several metres in the air, flames spread to nearby homes and thick acrid
smoke filled the air.&nbs...