Train derailment kills 55, wound nearly 600 in Cameroon

‘At least 55 people, including women and children, have lost their lives and nearly 600 others sustained injuries in an accident during which an overloaded passenger train derailed in southern Cameroon, authorities say.
According to a statement read on state broadcaster CRTV by the country’s Transport Minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o, the train, carrying 1,300 passengers instead of the usual 600, derailed while travelling from the capital Yaounde to the port city of Douala at midday on Friday.
Witnesses said that several wagons swung off the track as the crammed train derailed leaving behind debris spread over adjacent rail tracks.’
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