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Brétigny-sur-Orge_train_crash

On 12 July 2013, a train crash in the commune of Brétigny-sur-Orge in the southern suburbs of Paris left seven people dead and 428 injured when a passenger train carrying 385 people derailed and hit the station platform.The crash was the most deadliest in France since the 1988 Gare de Lyon accident in which 56 people were killed.