Freight Train Carrying Oil Derails, Explodes in Ill.

A train loaded with crude oil derailed, and some of its cars caught fire, in Illinois Thursday while traveling through a rural part of the state, authorities said. There were no injuries reported, but at least two of the 103 train cars carrying crude oil were set ablaze. The train derailed at around 1:20 p.m. local time (2:20 p.m. ET) near Galena, a town of about 3,400 people in the northwestern part of the state near the Iowa border, BNSF Railway said in a statement. At least five of the train cars derailed, emergency officials said.

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