Quebec Train Disaster

• Quebec Remembers Victims of Oil Train Disaster

  Crowds packed a church in the eastern Quebec town of Lac-Megantic Sunday to remember the 47 people who were killed there a year ago when a runaway oil train derailed and exploded, sending cataclysmic fireballs that obliterated a large swath of the downtown district.

• Charges Brought in Quebec Railway Disaster

  Three employees of the insolvent railway company involved in last summer's runaway oil train disaster that killed 47 people are due to appear in court Tuesday to face criminal negligence charges in the small Quebec town that was partially incinerated by exploding tanker cars.

• 42 confirmed dead from Canada rail disaster

  Police announced on Thursday they had found four more bodies amid the ruins of Lac-Megantic, the Quebec town devastated when an oil tanker train derailed and exploded, bringing the body count to 42.

• Bell tolls 50 times for Quebec dead in train disaster

  A week after the heart of the Quebec village of Lac-Megantic was devastated in a fireball in one of the worst train accidents in Canadian history, the St Agnes church bell rang 50 times on Saturday, once for each person believed to have died.

• Police say 24 bodies found in Quebec train crash

  The first victim of a runaway oil train's explosive derailment in a Quebec town has been identified, more than five days since the disaster, which left behind a scorched scene so dangerous that it slowed the search for 50 people presumed dead.

• Canada train disaster: Railway blames firefighters for letting brakes loose

  The US rail company at the center of Canada's worst train disaster in recent history on Tuesday blamed firefighters for the deadly derailment, as police indicated they believe it could be a case of criminal negligence.

• Canada train crash: death toll jumps to 13, around 37 still missing

  The death toll in Quebec's oil train disaster jumped to 13 people on Monday and police said about 37 more people were missing, a sign the derailment and explosion could be the worst accident in Canada since the Swissair crash of 1998.

• Five die, 40 missing after Canadian freight train disaster

  At least five people died and 40 were missing on Sunday after a runaway train carrying crude oil exploded and destroyed the center of a small Canadian town in a disaster that raises fresh questions about shipping oil by rail.