VIDEO: Minnesota train derailment and fire prompts evacuations

last update: 03/30/2023 – 21:29

US authorities say a train carrying ethanol and corn syrup has derailed and caught fire in Minnesota. Nearby residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes.

US authorities say a train carrying ethanol and corn syrup has derailed and caught fire in Minnesota. Nearby residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes.

county sheriff KandiyohiEric Tollefson, explains in a statement that the derailment of the BNSF company train occurred around one in the morning on Thursday in Raymondabout 160 kilometers west of Minneapolis.

Tollefson says “numerous” carriages derailed, several caught fire and houses around the site were evacuated.

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