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Train Derails in West Virginia, Sending Oil Tanker Into River

Investigators are on the scene of a train derailment in West Virginia, following two huge explosions.

The train was carrying crude oil when nearly 30 cars veered off the tracks in Fayette County, sending oil into a river that's a source of drinking water.

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