A train derailed in the southern Paris suburb of Brétigny-sur-Orge on Friday evening, with authorities reporting "many casualties". Local media claimed that at least eight people have been killed.A train derailed on Friday evening at a station in Brétigny-sur-Orge, a southern suburb of Paris, causing “many casualties” according to rail authorities.
Precise details remain unclear, but media reports indicated that passengers were trapped in the train and that some had been electrocuted.
Daily newspaper Le Parisien reported that at least eight people had been killed.
The Interior ministry called the accident a “code red” - meaning an accident in which “many people are victims”.
“The train came in to the station at high speed and it split in two for reasons that have not yet been established,” a police source told AFP. “One half continued to move along, while the other was left on its side by the platform.”
EGYPT
Supporters and opponents of ousted president Mohammed Morsi staged
rival demonstrations on the first Friday of Ramadan as tensions soar
following the bloody run-up to the holy month, which has left the nation
bitterly divided.
FRANCE
Twitter has released data to French authorities looking into the
authors of a series of anti-Semitic tweets, the micro-blogging site said
Friday. A French court ordered Twitter to release the user data after a
Jewish student union filed a lawsuit.
BRAZIL
Tens of thousands of workers across Brazil walked out of their
jobs on Thursday as part of an action called by unions, but the protests
drew fewer numbers that those seen at rallies last month, some of which
drew more than a million people.
CAMBODIA
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy vowed to help his party
challenge premier Hun Sen in a July 28 vote after receiving a royal
pardon on Friday. Rainsy, who lives in France, was convicted in absentia
on charges he says were politically motivated.
