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A passenger train was quarantined today after one person died and some people had to be hospitalized with flu-like symptoms in Ontario, CBC reports on its website.

Canwest News Service reports that emergency crews have sealed off two of the cars.

"The whole place is being overrun with ambulances and police cars, and we've got helicopters," Deborah DesRochers, chairwoman of Foleyet, tells the Canadian broadcaster. "They've got the train quarantined. They're trying to isolate what it is."

CBC says the train was carrying about 290 passengers and crew members.

Canwest says 10 people are being treated at a hospital. The rest are being kept on the train, the news service says.

"No one is going onto the train without full protective gear,'' police spokeswoman Sgt. Laura Nichols tells CTV.

The Canadian, as this train is known, was headed from Vancouver to Toronto.

Update at 1:10 p.m. ET: Canadian Press says a woman in her 60s died after boarding the train in Jasper, Alberta. "We don't know if the element is viral or bacterial or a case of food poisoning," provincial police Constable Marc Depatie tells the news service.

He tells CTV that seven passengers from the Jasper area are sick.