Toronto-bound train quarantined in northern Ontario after illness strikes passengers

By: THE CANADIAN PRESS

FOLEYET, Ont. - One person has died aboard a CN Rail train carrying more than 260 passengers to Toronto and has been quarantined in northern Ontario.

Via Rail spokeswoman Catherine Kaloutsky confirms one person has died, but she was awaiting more details from the scene. Police believe four to five people are ill with flu-like symptoms on the train, which is stopped in Foleyet, Ont., northwest of Sudbury.

Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Laura Nichols said the train was quarantined after CN Rail officials notified police that someone was feeling ill.

Nichols says the train had left from Jasper, Alta., and was bound for Toronto.