
In the Canadian province of Quebec, up to 15 people increased the number of victims of the fire that arose last Saturday as a result of an accident of a commodity train and the subsequent fire of tanks with oil. Over the past day, the bodies of two more people were found at the site of the disaster. More than 30 are still listed as missing.
Meanwhile, the investigation came to the preliminary conclusion that the criminal negligence was the starting point of the chain of events that led to the accident of the commodity train, the fire of tanks with oil and fire, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the police inspector Michel Forezhe.
Investigators consider it unlikely that the accident and fire are the work of terrorists. The discovered evidence gives reason to initiate a criminal investigation.
It will be difficult to figure out who exactly is responsible for the disaster. It was found that a fire arose a few hours before the accident. The caused firefighters put out the fire and left.
However, during the extinguishing, according to the current instruction of the transport company, the locomotive of the locomotive was stopped. And this could lead to the refusal of the brakes of the entire composition.
“After an hour or so, the composition that no one controlled rolled on his inclined independently,” Edward Burkhardt, president of the Rail World railway company, said.
According to eyewitnesses, the composition of 11 km rolled in complete darkness, without the signal lights turned on until he reached a speed of 101 km per hour and did not leave the rails.
According to the State Transport Company, Transport Canada, there are no rules prohibiting leaving on the tracks, near the village, unattended locomotive and the composition with fuel. The number of platforms with tanks transported by locomotive is also not limited.
The day before the crash, an inspection of the data of the locomotive and the composition was carried out, the company Transport Canada said. There were no defects and malfunctions, including in the brakes.
As established earlier, the railway staff was uncontrollable. The driver put him in the parking lot and waited for his shifter when the train suddenly started and, accelerating on the descent, left the rails.
The composition of 73 tanks with raw oil, which was in the United States, came off the rails in the city of Lak-Mezhantik on Saturday, July 6, after which several explosions thundered.
Due to the fire next to the fire, local coats had to evacuate about a thousand residents of nearby areas of the city, whose population is about six thousand people. The city center was completely burned out.