A train carrying a chemical derailed in the northern United States, causing a massive fire and the evacuation of several hundred people, US authorities and media reported on Saturday.
The derailment occurred on Friday night, in the town of East Palestine, in the state of Ohio, near the border with the state of Pennsylvania, and left no fatalities.
According to the local press, several explosions were heard on Saturday when the wagons were burning, despite the efforts of the firefighters, who saw their work made difficult by tanker trucks that froze due to the polar cold that plagues this area of the United States. United this weekend.
The train was carrying vinyl chloride, a chemical used in the manufacture of plastic. Some 2,000 residents, about half the population of the East Palestinian village, were ordered to leave their homes.
Local authorities ordered all residents within a 1-mile radius of the disaster site to vacate the area.
Source: TSF
