Lac-Megantic , Quebec ( CNN ) -- Five more bodies have been recovered from the scene of runaway train disaster in Quebec , raising the death toll to 33 , a Canadian provincial police official said Saturday . The bodies were pulled from where a train crashed in the town of Lac-Megantic , Capt . Michel Forget said . More than two dozen people are still believed to be missing , and the explosion and subsequent fire following the train derailment may have vaporized some of the victims , authorities have said . Investigators are working to determine how the train , parked in nearby Nantes , began rolling toward Lac-Megantic after midnight on Saturday , July 6 -- unbeknownst to dispatchers and rail traffic controllers . Most of the 73-car train derailed in the center of the town , and tank cars full of oil exploded and burned .
Death toll in the train disaster in Lac-Megantic rises to 33 , police say . More than two dozen people are still believed missing . - A fire at a chemical plant near Montreal kills one person and injures more than 100 others.