Paul McCartney‘s team quickly agreed with the promoter’s idea of welcoming survivors of the tragedy in Lac Megantic to the big outdoor show on Quebec City’s Plains of Abraham next Tuesday.
“We want to give them a break — a few hours of happiness that will allow them to not think about this tragedy that they’ve been immersed in for nearly two weeks,” Daniel Gélinas, chief executive of E3, which is promoting the show, said in a release.
On July 6th, Lac Megantic was the scene of the runaway train that took 72 cars filled with crude oil derailing into the centre of the community of 6,000. The subsequent explosions levelled 40 buildings and took the lives of 50 people, most of then young-adults. 42 bodies have been recovered, 8 people are still missing.
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