YAOUNDI, Oct 22, (APP/AFP) – At least 60 were killed when a packed passenger train derailed between Cameroon’s two main cities, a hospital source in the capital Yaounde said Saturday, giving a new toll the day after the accident. Almost 600 people were injured when the train, travelling from Yaounde to the economic hub of Douala, came off the rails near the central city of Eseka at around midday Friday. “We have received between 60 and 70 bodies at the station this morning,” a railway official who asked not to be identified told AFP in Yaounde on Saturday. The train was crammed with people because a collapsed bridge had made travelling the same route by road impossible.
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Cameroon rail accident toll rises to at least 60
