train derailment

The rail cars with hazardous materials were removed Saturday night.

There were no injuries reported after a CN train derailed just below Edmundston on Friday afternoon.

There will be an informational meeting at 4:30 this afternoon at the Lions Club in Plaster Rock for residents of Wapske, New Brunswick who were evacuated due to this week's train derailment. This meeting is for evacuees only.

New Brunswick health officials have issued an air quality advisory as a precaution after the CN train derailment and fire near Plaster Rock.

A team of disaster volunteers with the Canadian Red Cross has deployed from Fredericton northward 215 kilometres to the Village of Plaster Rock to assist local authorities with a reception centre and shelter if needed for any evacuees following derailment Tuesday evening of several cars from a CN Rail freight train.

Today the Canadian Transportation Agency on suspended the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway's permit to continue operating in Canada because the railway does not have adequate liability insurance.