Sunday, 9 February 2014

Transportation

French Alps: Train Derailed by Rock

Two people were killed when a falling boulder derailed a tourist train in the southern French Alps, local officials and firefighters say.

At least nine people were injured.

The train was travelling from Nice to the town of Digne-les-Bains on a line which crosses gorges and viaducts at up to 1,000m (3,200ft) above sea level.

"A rock the size of a car came off the mountainside and slammed into the first car of the train,” according to a local report.

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