Fifty-three people were killed and nearly 300 injured on Friday when a packed passenger train travelling between Cameroon’s two largest cities derailed and overturned, according to the country’s minister of transportation.
Speaking on state radio, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o said the figures represented only a provisional toll from the accident, which occurred near the train station in the town of Eseka, around 120 km (75 miles) west of the capital, Yaounde.
The inter-city passenger train was travelling from Yaounde to the commercial capital, Douala when the train accident occurred around 11 a.m.
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