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A CP train derailed near Guernsey, Sask. on Feb. 6, 2020.
The federal government on Thursday ordered lower speed limits for all trains carrying large amounts of dangerous goods, hours after a fiery derailment in rural Saskatchewan sent thick black smoke into the air.
A Canadian Pacific Railway freight train carrying crude oil jumped the tracks about 6:15 a.m. near Guernsey, 115 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon. Thirty-one of 104 cars derailed and a dozen caught fire, the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency said.
It also said there were no injuries.
"It looks like the back third of the train (derailed) and ... (there's) heavy, heavy smoke," said Blaine Weber, who lives in nearby Lanigan.
"There's probably at least 15, 20 cars ... all stacked up on the crossing that comes off the Yellowhead Highway."
A pillar of dark smoke continued to billow from the flaming wreckage well after daybreak.
Jack Gibney, reeve of the Rural Municipality of Usborne, which includes Guernsey, said
about 85 residents were evacuated from homes in the agricultural community. The hamlet is surrounded by farmland and is near a potash mine operated by Nutrien.
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