Lockdown notice, road closures end after train derails near Montreal

Restrictions were afloat lifted connected Montreal’s southbound enactment Friday greeting aft a bid derailed successful the country the time before, spilling hydrogen peroxide and starring to a hours-long confinement order.

The City of Longueuil issued an update connected its website astir 4:30 a.m. to fto residents cognize the lockdown was nary longer successful effect.

“Residents of the affected country nary longer request to enactment indoors and tin present determination astir safely outside,” the metropolis said. “Also enactment that Route 116 is reopened to postulation successful some directions.”

The derailment occurred astir 9 a.m. Thursday successful the city’s LeMoyne country adjacent the intersection of St-Louis and St-Georges streets.

Longueuil constabulary said nary injuries were reported, but a CN obstruction authoritative confirmed that 3 employees had been taken to infirmary arsenic a precautionary measure.

CN said astir 8 cars derailed, including 4 that toppled over, successful a railyard. The bid was carrying hydrogen peroxide that leaked, prompting a lockdown for an 800-metre area.

— with files from The Canadian Press