LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) – Officials in Canada say the death toll in the devastating oil train derailment has reached 13.
 
     Eight more bodies have been found in the wreckage now that investigators have better access to the zone closest to the blast, officials said Monday. About 40 people are still missing.

Crews are still trying to stabilize a dangerous situation in the Quebec town.

A train carrying 73 tank cars of North Dakota crude rolled driverless down a hill into the heart of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Saturday,  where it derailed and exploded, leveling the town center.

A manager at a bar that was leveled in the explosion says she believes there were about three workers there when the explosion took place and about 50 customers. Because of the danger of additional fires and explosions, crews haven’t been able to search for dozens of people still missing.

The train was one of around 10 such shipments a month now crossing Maine, a route that allows oil producers in North Dakota to get cheaper domestic crude to coastal refiners. Across North America, oil by rail traffic has more than doubled since 2011; in Maine, such shipments were unheard of two years ago.