Quebec Probes Crash for Crime as Premier Criticizes Railroad
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Police are investigating possible crimes in Canada’s worst rail disaster in 27 years as Quebec Premier Pauline Marois criticized the railway’s response to the crash that left as many as 60 people dead or missing.
Marois, who said she will visit the town of Lac-Megantic in southeastern Quebec tomorrow, said there were “serious gaps” in the communications response from Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. The fact that Edward Burkhardt, chief executive officer of closely held Rail World Inc. which owns the railway, is only arriving in Lac-Megantic today is wrong, she told reporters today in Quebec City.