(13 Jul 2013) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide pan of train wreckage on platform
2. Various of fire officers inspecting the wreckage
3. Wide of French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault walking towards journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Marc Ayrault, French Prime Minister:
"At this moment the toll is six dead and 30 injured including eight in critical condition. They are all being taken care of by the Health Minister Marisol Touraine who just assessed the situation in the hospitals of the Paris region."
5. Wide of wreckage of the train
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Marc Ayrault, French Prime Minister:
"Regarding the causes of this accident and of this tragedy, it is impossible to give information on this issue today. Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier launched an investigation through his administration. The Bureau of Investigations and Accidents (of SNCF, the French national railways) has also been tasked to carry out an investigation and the judicial police is also conducting an investigation. So there will be three investigations that will allow us to find out quickly what caused this tragedy."
7. Wide of French Interior Minister Manuel Valls surrounded by reporters on platform
8. Pan right from Valls to train wreckage
STORYLINE
The French Prime Minister said late on Friday it was "impossible" at this early stage to know what caused a train to derail and crash into a station outside of Paris killing at least six and injuring dozens.
Jean-Marc Ayrault visited the Bretigny-sur-Orge station, the site of the crash, late on Friday night and said the government, national railway Bureau of Investigations, and Accidents and the police were all carrying out investigations to find out what caused the tragedy.
"There will be three investigations that will allow us to find out quickly what caused this tragedy," he told reporters.
Investigators and fire officials continued to search through the wreckage on Friday night as they looked for clues to what caused the crash earlier in the day.
The crash was the deadliest in France in several years.
The Interior Ministry said some 192 people were either injured or being treated for shock - of which nine were in a critical condition.
Some 300 firefighters, 20 medical teams and eight helicopters were deployed to the scene to get survivors out of the derailed train carriages lying on the rail tracks inside Bretigny station.
French President Francois Hollande rushed to the scene at the Bretigny-sur-Orge station, 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Paris.
Four of the seven train cars slid toward the station, crushing part of the metallic roof over the platform.
The accident came as France is preparing to celebrate its most important national holiday, Bastille Day, on Sunday, and as masses of people were heading out of Paris and other big cities to see family or for summer holidays.
It was unclear whether all the casualties were inside the train, or whether some had been on the platform, or how fast the train was travelling.
The French national railways authority SNCF said the train was carrying about 385 passengers when it derailed on Friday evening at 17:15 pm local time (15:15 GMT) and crashed into the station at Bretigny-sur-Orge, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Paris.
The train was headed from Paris to Limoges, a 400-kilometre (250-mile) journey, and was about 20 minutes into the scheduled three-hour journey.
According to the SNCF the train's third and fourth cars initially derailed, which then knocked the other cars off the track.
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