DRC: train crash

Friday, December 2nd, 2005 @ 12:00 UTC

by Sokari Ekine

Countries:
D.R. of Congo
Topics:
none

Congogirl reports on a train crash in the DRC in which dozens have been killed...”The people were travelling on top of carriages and were swept off by support beams on the bridge. Officials say about 60 people may have died on the train that was travelling from Lubumbashi in the southeast to Kindu in central Maniema Province. An eyewitness says that most of the passengers were knocked into a river with a strong current”.

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