Authorities in the severely damaged Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic said some residents could start returning home on Tuesday, after a runaway train derailed and exploded early Saturday morning, killing at least 15 people. Sixty persons are still unaccounted for, according to the latest count, but this number is fluid, meaning that it moves up and down from moment to moment. In a message to the People of Lac-Mégantic, signed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Pope Francis offers his sympathy and prayers for the victims, their families and for rescue workers.
Message
of His Holiness, Pope Francis
to the People of Lac-Mégantic
to the People of Lac-Mégantic
Upon
learning of the tragic train derailment at Lac-Mégantic, with its many victims
of whom a large number is still unaccounted for, His Holiness Pope Francis
unites himself through prayer in the anguish of the grieving families, and he
entrusts the victims to the mercy of God, asking Him to welcome them into His
light. He expresses his deep sympathy to the injured persons and their
families, to the emergency workers, and to all the people around them, asking
the Lord to support and comfort them in their hardship. As a token of
consolation, the Holy Father sends a special apostolic blessing to all persons
touched by this tragedy.
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