Huge train crash in Cameron; at least 55 dead, hundreds injured
Fourteen people remained trapped on Friday under the wreckage of a packed passenger train that derailed in route between Cameroon's two largest cities, killing at least 55 and injuring 575. Reuters news agency reports.
The Camrail inter-city train was traveling from the capital, Yaounde, to the port city of Douala when the accident occurred around 11 a.m. local time. Social media users posted photos taken at the scene of the accident which showed several wagons overturned on a slope beside the rail line.
A Bollore spokesman confirmed that an accident had occurred, but offered no further details about what could have caused the crash.