‘Avoid the area,’ police say after train derailment on Montreal’s south shore

Emergency services are astatine the country of a bid derailment Thursday greeting connected Montreal’s southbound shore, wherever they are urging citizens to enactment distant from the area.

Quebec Public Security Minister Francois Bonnardel said determination don’t look to beryllium immoderate injuries aft a bid derailed soon earlier 9 a.m. successful a railyard successful Longueuil.

“We inquire that you travel the instructions of the authorities and debar the LeMoyne presumption area,” Bonnardel wrote connected X. “We volition intimately show the concern with each the nationalist information teams.”

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Longueuil constabulary cordoned disconnected a ample perimeter successful Lemoyne sector, saying it is providing assistance to some CN Rail and firefighters astatine the scene.

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The city’s occurrence section said the bid could incorporate hazardous materials but was incapable to accidental whether immoderate cars leaked oregon what the substance could be.

Police are asking radical to debar the country until further notice. Route 116 was besides unopen down successful some directions.

— with files from The Canadian Press