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‘Why are they being hush-hush?’ Ohio villagers anxious, enraged after toxic train spill

Members of the community gather ahead of a town hall meeting to discuss their safety and other environmental concerns following a train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals, in East Palestine, Ohio, US, on February 15, 2023. © Alan Freed, Reuters

Residents of an Ohio village upended by a freight train derailment packed a gymnasium demanding reassurances after toxic chemicals spilled and burned in a huge plume over their homes and businesses. 

“I have three grandbabies,” said Kathy Dyke, who came with hundreds of her neighbors to a meeting Wednesday where representatives of Norfolk Southern were conspicuously absent. “Are they going to grow up here in five years and have cancer?”

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