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Train derails in northern France, injuring 44 people
Investigators are examining possible sabotage after a rail fragment was found on the track and one passenger was critically injured.
- A regional passenger train carrying approximately 180 people derailed near Cléon in Normandy, northern France, injuring at least 44 passengers.
- Emergency services deployed 140 firefighters and medical personnel to the scene, airlifting an 18-year-old woman in critical condition to Rouen University Hospital.
- Initial investigations by law enforcement indicated that the train came off the tracks after striking an unidentified object on the line between Rouen and Caen.
- The impact caused four train cars to leave the rails and one carriage to overturn, according to local emergency response officials.
- National railway operator SNCF suspended rail services along the impacted route and launched a formal investigation into the cause of the incident.
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"The most likely hypothesis today is that it is an act that is not simply deliberate, but can be described as criminal.The locomotive turned around," said the regional president of Normandy about the accident that left 44 people injured.
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