Canadian police said Tuesday they had launched a criminal investigation into the train bombings in Lac-Megantic, possibly killed 50 people, destroyed around 200 AD the center of town, clues.
Inspector Michel Forget said police do not believe that when dealing with terrorism, a runaway train pulling 72 barrels of crude oil town early Saturday, the curve of the derailment, explosion into a huge fireball, destroying lakeside community center.
"I will not speculate, we've recovered the evidence, because it is secret," Forget said. But he said some of the evidence may point to "criminal behavior."
"We do not believe that terrorism is a part of it," he added. "Criminal negligence may be one we are looking for clues."
Almost a third of the town's 6,000 residents to evacuate their homes firefighters trying to control the fire brought a lot of the United States from Canada and around Maine and Vermont. Just over half have been allowed to go home.
Montreal Maine Atlantic, with the train, many North American railway track has been greatly enhanced delivery of crude oil as producers seek alternatives has been extended to higher output capacity in Canada and North Dakota, one of the channels.
Oil was transported in a train crash in eastern Canada from North Dakota Bakken field.
The police have found 15 bodies, but residents remain unaccounted holders, 35 people around an event that may turn out since 1989, North America's worst rail disaster was found alive with little hope.
From the Canadian Transportation Safety Board officials said more than a dozen research accidents every angle, even though they have not obtained the central "red zone."
Automotive and brake
TSB probes, the researchers, led by Donald Ross, the key elements include the widely used DOT-111 cylinder strength of crude oil tankers, as well as how to train, almost one mile long and is secured at night in Nantes from Lac-Megantic about eight kilometers of rail line extension.
Industry rules that engineers must be provided with sufficient train handbrakes to ensure that it can not move, and then test, they have done a proper job. Ross said his team can not check whether the brake is set, until it can enter the town center, check the pile derailed cars.
Montreal Maine Atlantic chairman Ed Burckhardt told Reuters reporters that the company has been in accordance with the protocol, using the same criteria, the Canadian Railway Canadian Pacific Railway on the 2nd.
The company has always put safety a lot of effort, in his interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, said:
"Obviously, we've blown the tragedy of it all," he said.
Ross said the train when it started to glide LAC-Megantic grade in railways, a relatively steep 1.2 percent grade.
He said the lack of train lines, may have been warned a runaway train dispatcher a signaling system, and that, although all of the trains need to have runaway automatic braking system - known as the dead man switch - they only work the train's locomotive running.
Now most of the railcars lying on the railway line running crumpled together like flattened chain link.
"If we see the need for a secure message, the industry believes that they need to strengthen the things we want to do that," Ross said.
TSB and its equivalent of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, has long been emphasized DOT-111 cars more stringent rules.
But no one knows if there is a stronger car travel "far beyond its authorized speed, you can prevent disasters involving trains, Ross said."
The train stopped at the near Nantes, Quebec, on Friday night, when an engine has been running air brake system to ensure there is sufficient pressure, leaving fire. Local firefighters off the engine, put out the fire and went home.
Unmanned train, then start downhill toward the LAC-Megantic, the derailment, blew up just after 1:00 am (0500 GMT) on Saturday in the city center.
Montreal, Maine Atlantic said, turn off the engine caused by the loss of locomotive air brake pressure may break the train.
But the train handbrakes, an independent system, locking the individual presentations locomotives and rail cars, which provides rail, Transport Canada's priorities. It stressed that this is how unusual a left on an unattended mainline train.
Experts see handbrakes vital parked overnight train from the locomotive air brake system requires power.
Fire detection center of the explosion of the authorities, the death toll is expected to rise. Asked the coroner's office lost relatives to bring brushes, combs, razors and other experts can extract DNA samples, strands of hair.
"They know where their loved ones, on the site, most of them are now waiting for confirmation - because it makes the official said," Steve Lemay, located in Lac-Megantic parish priest, who has been with the family meet. "Obviously, they do not have to wait for the missing return."
 



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