Symbol of tragic Lac-Megantic train derailment for sale

MONTREAL - The popular restaurant-bar that became a symbol of the deadly 2013 train derailment in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic is up for sale.

Le Musi-Cafe owner Yannick Gagne has set the asking price at $2.5 million. Nearly two-thirds of the 47 victims who died after the train derailed and exploded were inside the establishment at the time.

The runaway oil-tanker train was operated by the now defunct Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway.

The two-storey establishment with two outdoor terraces reopened in December 2014 - some 17 months after the tragedy.

Gagne lost three workers in the blast and about a dozen decided to not come back.