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French train derailment probed as sabotage after 44 injured

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A train derailment in northwest France, near Rouen, has injured 44 people, with one individual in critical condition. Investigators are treating the incident as potential sabotage after a rail fragment was discovered on the tracks. The train, carrying 186 passengers, was traveling between Rouen and Caen when it derailed close to a Renault factory. The driver has tested negative for drugs and alcohol. AI

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French train derailment probed as sabotage after 44 injured

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Agence France-Presse ·

    French police probe if sabotage derailed train and injured 44

    Investigators suspect that a train derailment in northwest France which injured 44, one gravely, was the result of sabotage, a police source said on Saturday. A fragment of rail was found on the track, with the possibility of a malicious act being treated as the main line of inqu…

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