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                       Canada Derailment Toll Rises to 13

   The death toll in Quebec`s oil train disaster has jumped to 13 people,
   and police say about 37 more people are still missing.
   Quebec provincial police Sergeant Benoit Richard on Monday said eight
   more bodies had been found in the wreckage, after conditions improved
   enough for inspectors to get better access to the charred site two days
   after the disaster.
   The rail company that operated the train said it was parked outside the
   town of Lac Megantic late Friday, and that the train`s engineer set its
   brakes as he ended his work shift. But sometime later, the train
   started moving downhill, gathered speed and derailed on a curve,
   causing huge explosions.
   The blasts destroyed about 30 buildings, including a public library and
   a popular bar that was filled with revelers.
   All but one of the train`s 73 tanker cars were carrying oil and the
   accident has renewed a long-running debate over the safety of oil
   transport by rail.
   Numerous rail companies in both Canada and the U.S. have sharply
   increased oil shipments as pipelines from Canadian fields and the U.S.
   state of North Dakota have been filled to capacity.
   Oil shipments by rail are more expensive than by pipelines. But the
   recent surge in North American oil production has outpaced pipeline
   construction, forcing many producers to turn to trains to move their
   oil to refineries. Pipeline construction has proved controversial, with
   the U.S. government in the midst of a lengthy debate about whether to
   approve a new pipeline from Canadian tar sand fields through the
   central part of the United States to a refinery along the Gulf of
   Mexico.
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