Three employees of the railway company involved in an oil train disaster in Canada that killed 47 people are due in court later on criminal negligence charges.
The charges come 10 months after more than 60 tankers carrying oil from North Dakota came loose in the middle of the night and rolled almost seven miles downhill to Lac-Megantic in eastern Quebec where they derailed.
At least five of the tankers exploded, destroying about 30 buildings in the downtown bar area on July 6 last year.
The Quebec provincial prosecutor's office says 47 counts of criminal negligence have been filed against engineer Thomas Harding, manager of train operations Jean Demaitre, traffic controller Richard Labrie and Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway Ltd.
The charges represent one count for each person killed and are the first to be brought in the case. Criminal negligence that causes death can carry life imprisonment in Canada.
Rene Verret, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office, said the three men were arrested late on Monday afternoon.
Firefighters at the scene of the crash Prosecutors said in a statement that they had decided to file charges after an analysis of the evidence gathered at the scene.
The railroad has blamed engineer Harding for failing to set the brakes adequately, allowing the train to run downhill to Lac-Megantic, a lakeside town of 6,000 people.
Harding had apparently left the train unattended after checking into a local inn for the night.
The arrests came just days before the $15.85m (£9.4m) sale of the bankrupt railway is due to be completed in the US.
Most of the proceeds will be used to repay creditors and eventually a fund will be set up to compensate victims and help with clean-up costs. Initial estimates suggest these could be as high as $500m (£297m).
The railroad's buyer, a subsidiary of New York-based Fortress Investment Group, is changing its name to Central Maine and Quebec Railway and says it has no plans to continue with oil shipments.
The crash, the worst railway accident in Canada in nearly 150 years, has led to intense public pressure to make oil trains safer in that country and the US.
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