French Train Crash In Alp's.

By Patric Walter

• In the French Alps on the 8th of February a two carriage tourist train was derailed by a falling balder. Thirty four people were travelling on the line including two railway officials. Two people have been killed and around 20 people hurt. One of the passengers is in a serious condition. Train des Pignes is a tourist train that runs between the Riviera city of Nice and the town of Digne-les-Bains in the Alps. It crashed between Saint-Benoit and Annot when it was hit by the rock. One of the passengers sdaid the rock was the size of a car came off the mountainside and slammed into the first car of the train. The train was carrying 34 people.

WHO?• There where 34 people on the train including two

railway officals. There where two people killed in the accident they were a French woman from the region and a Russian woman who was travelling with her husband. Overall there was twenty people injured and one in critical condition.

What?

• A boulder collided into the des Pignes tourist train.

WHEN?•This event happened on the 8th of

February 2014

Where?Train des Pignes is a tourist train that runs between the Riviera city of Nice and the town of Digne-les-Bains in the French Alps.

This image is showing the train derailed

This image is showing where the balder hit the train in the first carriage.

This image is showing the train derailed

This image is showing the balder which hit the train.

Headlines/ quotes

•Two dead in French train crash in the alps.•Falling rock derails train in French Alps, two dead.•Two die as boulder smashes into train in French Alps.•Rock derails Nice to Digne-les-Bains train.•French tourist train derails in Alps, two killed.

News Paper Article • Two people were killed when a falling boulder derailed a tourist train in the southern

French Alps, local officials and firefighters say. At least nine people were injured. The train was travelling from Nice to the town of Digne-les-Bains on a line which crosses gorges and viaducts at up to 1,000m (3,200ft) above sea level. Images from the scene show the two-carriage train dangling from the tracks, the side of one carriage caved in by the rock. Local prosecutor Stephane Kellen Berger told AFP news agency that one of the dead was a Russian woman, while the other victim came from the Alps region. One of the injured is said to be in a critical condition, while the others, including the driver, are reported to have sustained lighter injuries. "A rock the size of a car came off the mountainside and slammed into the first car of the train,'' Jean Baluster, mayor of nearby Annot, told BFM television. There were a total of 34 people on board at the time of the accident, AFP news agency reports. The agency adds that a total of 110 firefighters and 32 vehicles were deployed from around the region, as well as two helicopters. They are said to have encountered difficulties in reaching the accident because of heavy snow and the isolated location. The train travels on track that regularly receives snow and rock falls, but regional transport official Jean-Yves Petit said that even in winter it is considered safe.

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• By Patric Walter.