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No injuries, no spills after train derails in Quebec’s Saguenay region


June 17, 2018
By The Canadian Press
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CHAMBORD, Que. – The Transportation Safety Board is investigating a train derailment that occurred about 250 kilometres north of Quebec City late Saturday night.

Quebec provincial police says three cars went off the rails at about 11:20 p.m. near Chambord, in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region.

Nobody was hurt and there were no spills.

A TSB spokesperson says the agency is assessing the situation before deciding whether to send a team on site.

The cause of the derailment is unknown.

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