The Lac-Mégantic Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

"On the 6th of July, 2013, in the early hours of the morning, a freight train which had been parked for the night on the railway tracks near Nantes in Quebec started to move..."

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► This video is also available in German (   • Das Lac-Mégantic Desaster | Eine kurz...  )

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:48 - Background
01:43 - The Accident
08:31 - The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
► "Underworld" by Myuu

SOURCES:
► "Lac-Megantic: The Runaway Train That Destroyed a Town" by Jessica Murphy, published by BBC News, January 2018. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c....
► "Railway Investigation Report R13D0054" published by The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, August 2018. Link: https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-re....
► "Canada Runaway Train: Lac-Megantic Death Toll Rises" published by BBC News, July 2013. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c....
► "Lac Megantic Explosion: a Chronicle of the Tragedy" published by The Star, July 2013. Link: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/....
► "Last Moments of Lac-Mégantic: Survivors Share Their Stories" by Justin Giovannetti, published by The Globe and Mail, November 2013. Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/....
► "The Frantic Moment When the Train Driver in Lac-Megantic Raced to the Scene" by Andy Blatchford, published by The Windsor Star, July 2013. Link: https://web.archive.org/web/201307180....
► "Lac-Megantic Marks Seventh Anniversary of 2013 Rail Disaster With Memorial Site" by Stephanie Marin, published by CTV News, July 2020. Link: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/lac-meg....

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