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French rail crash horror as train smashes into platform south of Paris
UK Daily Mail ^ | 7.12.2013 | By ANTHONY BOND and PETER ALLEN

Posted on 07/12/2013 1:04:17 PM PDT by Shery

At least seven people have been killed and 60 seriously injured after a packed passenger train derailed south of Paris this evening. The high speed intercity train was travelling from the French capital to the city of Limoges when it derailed onto its side in a train station in the suburb of Bretigny-sur-Orge at about 3.15pm GMT. The accident has left seven people dead, with the victims being crushed to death or electrocuted. Rescue workers are now

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TOPICS: Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: crash; france; highspeedrail; highspeedtrain; train
Holiday weekend in France due to Bastille Day on Sunday. Prayers for families traveling and those who were injured or killed.

I wonder how long before a Jihadi group takes credit for this? It says the train was entering the platform area at a high rate of speed. Seems unusual as it did not state it was an ICE train.

1 posted on 07/12/2013 1:04:17 PM PDT by Shery
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To: Willie Green

ping.

(for everybody else...kidding)


2 posted on 07/12/2013 1:06:28 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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Was it done by youths?


3 posted on 07/12/2013 1:07:41 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: markomalley

High Speed Rail ya say?


4 posted on 07/12/2013 1:10:45 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Shery

Planes going too slow and trains going too fast


5 posted on 07/12/2013 1:12:38 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Shery

Muslims love them some death.


6 posted on 07/12/2013 1:19:14 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Shery

TGV. Great ride from Paris to Avignon. Not ICE in France. Germany.


7 posted on 07/12/2013 1:27:18 PM PDT by shankbear (The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
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