Re: NG: Pass train wreck in Cameroon

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Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail
The inter-city passenger train was travelling from Yaounde to the commercial capital, Douala, when the accident occurred around 11am (10am GMT).

"There was a loud noise. I looked back and the wagons behind us left the rails and started rolling over and over. There was a lot of smoke," said a Reuters journalist travelling in a wagon near the front of the train.

He said that, before its departure from Yaounde, a railway employee said additional wagons had been added to the train to accommodate extra passengers, though it was unclear if that played a role in the accident.

The collapse of a bridge along the main highway between the capital and Douala had prompted increased numbers of passengers to undertake the journey by rail.