Rail firm says it will investigate why children were allowed on
   high-speed train that derailed near Strasbourg, as death toll rises to
   11

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   Aftermath of high-speed train crash in Strasbourg

   Children were on board a high-speed train that derailed during a test
   run in north-eastern France, the French rail company said, as the death
   toll rose to 11 with five still missing.
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   present on the train [and those who] were not authorised to be on it.”

   Saturday’s crash near Strasbourg of one of France’s flagship high-speed
   trains was “a huge shock”, the SNCF chairman, Guillaume Pepy, told a
   news conference. “So far the accident is inexplicable.”
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   The new trains are designed to provide speedy journeys from Paris to
   eastern France and eventually into Luxembourg. But it was now
   “reasonable to assume” that the high-speed Paris to Strasbourg line
   would not be opened next April as planned, the SNCF board member,
   Jacques Rapoport, said on Sunday.