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Brétigny-sur-Orge train crash
2013Jul, 12

Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.

On 12 July 2013, a train crash occurred in the commune of Brétigny-sur-Orge in the southern suburbs of Paris, France, when a passenger train carrying 385 people derailed and hit the station platform. Seven people were killed and there were 11 serious injuries and 21 minor injuries.The accident was cited as the most serious rail crash in France since the 1988 Gare de Lyon accident in which 56 people were killed.

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