Hundreds gather for memorial service for victims of Quebec oil train derailment
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A overflow crowd is attending a memorial service at a church in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic for the 47 people who were killed there when a runaway oil train derailed and exploded.
About 1,000 people packed Ste-Agnes Church for the Saturday morning Mass presided over by Luc Cyr, the archbishop of Sherbrooke. Among the dignitaries attending are Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Quebec Premier Pauline Marois and the town's mayor, Colette Roy-Laroche.
Parish priest Steve Lemay says what happened to residents' beloved town was an unheard of tragedy that has brought incomprehensible suffering to its people.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Forty-seven people were killed on July 6 when a runaway train carrying crude oil careened off the tracks and exploded into a fireball, devastating the lakeside town of 6,000.