http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31638526/ns/world_news-europe/
In Viareggio Italy, a gas filled train derailed while traveling through a downtown neighborhood around midnight Monday. The official count is 14 people dead and 35-50 severely burned. The 14-car train was traveling from the northern city of La Spezia. As the train was passing through Viareggio neighborhoods it derailed. A car filled with liquefied petroleum gas sprung a leak. When a spark hit the gas it created an explosion that collapsed five buildings and set fire to a vast area. Homes crumbled or burned, killing residents as they slept. It took 300 firefighters to extinguish the blaze.
The story kept my attention very easily. It is a sad and frightening story. It’s even scarier that the train didn’t just hurt people on board, but that it actually killed people asleep in their homes as well. I think that sending highly explosive cargo through an inhabited area should be questioned and examined more thoroughly to prevent accidents such as this from happening again.
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Your article description is a little more detailed than the last one I read. You did a good job making a short interesting paraphrase.
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