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Breaking news from the BBC: Heathrow shut after Boeing Dreamliner 787 fire

Runways at London's Heathrow airport have closed after an incident involving an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet.

Arrivals and departures were suspended after the incident at 16:30 BST, a spokesman for the airport said. No passengers were aboard at the time.

Fifty Dreamliners worldwide were grounded in January because of battery malfunctions.

Boeing later modified the jets with new batteries.

In April an Ethiopian Airlines Dreamliner - said to be the plane involved in the Heathrow incident - flew from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on the first commercial flight since the grounding.

Pictures of the Heathrow fire on Twitter show an aircraft close to a terminal building surrounded by fire vehicles. London Fire Brigade said its crews were standing by to assist Heathrow staff.

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From the Daily Telegraph (UK): Train crash near Paris: 'many casualties'

A train has derailed in the Paris suburb of Bretigny-sur-Orge in an accident that has caused "many casualties", according to authorities.

The Paris prefect's office said a "red alert" plan had been activated and the interior ministry confirmed the accident, but no further details were immediately available.

The crash involved a rush hour inter-city train which crashed at around 5pm local time on Friday in the suburb of Brétigny-sur-Orge in southern Paris. It was heading for the city of Limoges in western France.

SNCF's Jean-Paul Boulet said that the train was carrying some 350 passengers when it derailed at 5.15 local time. He said that four carriages piled up. He could not say whether there were any casualties.

It was unclear how many casualties there were but Le Parisien said at least eight people were killed. Many of the wounded are apparently still stuck in the trains unable to move. The report says some passengers were electrocuted and crushed.

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