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Clean up operation underway after truck spills tar in downtown Montreal

Raw video: Truck spills spills tar in downtown Montreal

MONTREAL — A clean up operation was underway after a tanker truck carrying tar overturned in downtown Montreal on Tuesday morning.

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The incident took place at Notre Dame Street and De Lorimier Avenue at around 6:15 a.m. as a truck was pulling a tanker full of hot tar for a roofing company tipped half of its load into the road: more than 4,000 litres.

Montreal firefighters secured a perimeter and eastbound Notre Dame Street was closed for clean up.

No injuries were reported.

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