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<\/p>\nResidents of Repentigny, about 200 kilometres west of Lac-M\u00e9gantic, have many questions about how a train could derail when it was seemingly moving along a straight path, Dufour said. But they are also breathing \u201ca huge sigh of relief\u201d because no one was hurt.<\/p>\n
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CN Rail said three railcars that had previously contained diesel were empty at the time of the derailment, adding that they have been cleared from the scene.<\/p>\n
The derailment occurred on the edge of a residential area, first responders acted quickly and all potentially hazardous materials have already been removed, Dufour said. <\/p>\n
CN teams have been removing the wagons one by one since late Sunday, Dufour said. The mayor believes some major streets could reopen as of Monday evening.<\/p>\n
However, railway traffic will be closed off for a few more days, he said.<\/p>\n
Dufour said repairs were being carried out two weeks ago on the stretch of the railroad where the train derailed, but he said it\u2019s too soon to say what caused the crash.<\/p>\n
Hugo Fontaine, spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said two investigators arrived at the scene of the derailment on Sunday to gather information and assess what happened.<\/p>\n
The railway said it will provide additional information as it becomes available. \u201cCN would like to apologize for the inconvenience resulting from this incident,\u201d railway spokesperson Michelle Hannan said.<\/p>\n
Quebec Premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette was asked about the derailment while holding a news conference in Longueuil, Que., Monday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to express my deepest sympathy for the residents living nearby. We\u2019ve seen that for many of them, the derailment occurred very close to where they live,\u201d she said. \u201cOf course, this does remind us of the Lac-M\u00e9gantic tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fr\u00e9chette took the opportunity to remind the federal government that it still hasn\u2019t build the long-promised rail bypass so that trains can skirt around Lac-M\u00e9gantic\u2019s downtown. She urged Ottawa to get moving on the project. <\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 6, 2026.<\/p>\n
Erika Morris, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of Repentigny, about 200 kilometres west of Lac-M\u00e9gantic, have many questions about how a train could derail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2338,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-785164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-montreal","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}