French officials investigate if 'malicious act' caused train derailment
Officials say a rail fragment was found on the tracks after Friday's crash of a passenger train that left 44 people injured.
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Officials say a rail fragment was found on the tracks after Friday's crash of a passenger train that left 44 people injured.
Investigators suspect that a train derailment in northwest France which injured 44, one gravely, was the result of sabotage, a police source said on Saturday. A fragment of rail was found on the track, with the possibility of a malicious act being treated as the main line of inquiry as a result, the source said. Carrying 186 passengers, the train was running between the Normandy cities of Rouen and Caen when it derailed around 7.45pm local time on Friday close to Renaultโs factory in the town of...
A police source said Saturday that French investigators suspect sabotage caused a train derailment in northwest France after a fragment of rail was found on the track. At leastย 44 people were injured in the derailment that occurred a day earlier, including an 18-year-old woman "in a critical condition".ย ย
France's transport minister says 180 passengers were on board the train operating the Rouen-Caen route in Normandy.