Train derailment in Ukraine unleashes toxic cloud

(AP Photo/Yriy Kalinak/ Ministry for Emergency Situations of Ukraine)

A train derailment in Ukraine unleashed a toxic cloud that swept over villages and sent at least 20 people to hospitals. The accident rattled Ukrainians who remember the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster two decades ago.

The derailment Monday evening sparked a fire in a cargo of yellow phosphorous and created the toxic cloud of gas. Officials today said the fire had been extinguished and the toxic cloud had dispersed.

For more on the train derailment and toxic cloud, read this report from Kiev, Ukraine, by Natasha Lisova.

--Paul Chavez