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Railroad, Three Employees Charged Over Lac-Megantic Oil Train Disaster
The defunct Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway and three of its employees will be charged with criminal negligence over the July 2013 oil train explosion that killed 47 people and destroyed much of the Canadian town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, BBC News reports.
Thomas Harding, the train's engineer Jean Demaitre, manager of train operations, and Richard Labrie, who was in charge of rail circulation on the day of the accident, were arrested Monday.
Canada suspended the railway's operating licence in August.
The three men and the company each face 47 counts of criminal negligence causing death.
The explosion involved oil owned by a World Fuel Services Corp. [NYSE:INT] (WFS) unit, leading to a dispute between that company and the government of Quebec.
