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Train quarantined south of Timmins
May 09, 2008 10:52 AM
Curtis Rush
STAFF REPORTER
A VIA train bound for Toronto with more than 260 passengers aboard has been stopped north of Timmins after one person died and others fell ill.
As the train was pulling in around 8:30 a.m. at Foleyet, a small town northwest of Sudbury, CN Rail officials were told there was a passenger who had died.
Five other people then took ill with flu-like symptoms, Ontario Provincial Police said.
Emergency workers with full protective gear were called to the train and about 10 people have been taken to hospital in Timmins, OPP said.
The rest of the passengers on the train have been quarantined.
The train originated in Jasper, Alta.
May 09, 2008 10:52 AM
Curtis Rush
STAFF REPORTER
A VIA train bound for Toronto with more than 260 passengers aboard has been stopped north of Timmins after one person died and others fell ill.
As the train was pulling in around 8:30 a.m. at Foleyet, a small town northwest of Sudbury, CN Rail officials were told there was a passenger who had died.
Five other people then took ill with flu-like symptoms, Ontario Provincial Police said.
Emergency workers with full protective gear were called to the train and about 10 people have been taken to hospital in Timmins, OPP said.
The rest of the passengers on the train have been quarantined.
The train originated in Jasper, Alta.
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