Five properties have been evacuated after a train derailed in a rural neighbourhood east of Cranbrook Saturday.

The Regional District of East Kootenay said a state of local emergency has been declared and the residents of five homes in the area have been ordered to leave after the train derailed at about 7 a.m.

The Transportation Safety Board said details were limited, but confirmed it has deployed two investigators to the site of a Canadian Pacific Kansas City derailment in a Cranbrook subdivision.

They will assess and examine the site and begin gathering information.

Postmedia has reached out to CPKC for more information.

More to come…

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