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PARIS — An enormous boulder hurtled off a mountain and smashed into a tourist train in the French Alps on Saturday, derailing it on the mountainside and killing two of its approximately 30 passengers, officials said. Nine people were injured. PARIS — An enormous boulder hurtled off a mountain and smashed into a tourist train in the French Alps on Saturday, derailing it on the mountainside and killing two of its approximately 30 passengers, officials said. Nine people were injured.
The force of the boulder caved in the side of the train, which takes a leisurely three hours to travel from Nice, in the south of France, to Digne-les-Bains, 93 miles northwest.The force of the boulder caved in the side of the train, which takes a leisurely three hours to travel from Nice, in the south of France, to Digne-les-Bains, 93 miles northwest.
“A rock the size of an automobile came off the mountainside and slammed into the first car of the train,” Jean Ballester, mayor of nearby Annot, told BFM TV.“A rock the size of an automobile came off the mountainside and slammed into the first car of the train,” Jean Ballester, mayor of nearby Annot, told BFM TV.
The train travels along the mountains on track that is regularly hit by snow and rocks, but a regional transport official said it was considered safe.The train travels along the mountains on track that is regularly hit by snow and rocks, but a regional transport official said it was considered safe.