Cameroon train derails; at least 55 dead, hundreds injured

The Camrail between city prepare was going from the capital, Yaounde, to the port city of Douala when the mishap happened around 11am nearby time (1000 GMT) close to the prepare station in the town of Eseka, around 120 km (75 miles) west of the capital.

"There was a boisterous commotion. I thought back and the wagons behind us exited the rails and began moving once again and over. There was a ton of smoke," said a Reuters writer going in a wagon close to the front of the prepare.

Prior to its takeoff from Yaounde, he said that a railroad representative said extra wagons had been added to the prepare to oblige additional travelers, however it was indistinct if that assumed a part in the mischance.

The crumple of an area of the fundamental interstate between the capital and Douala had incited expanded quantities of travelers to attempt the trip by rail. The two occurrences, which happened around the same time, have now adequately cut the primary transportation hub in the Focal African nation of more than 22 million.

"There are the groups of ladies, kids. There are numerous," said one worker of Camrail, which is worked by France's Bollore, talking from the scene of the mishap. He said three of his partners were among the casualties.

Joel Bineli, a traveler on the crashed prepare, told Reuters he saw dissected bodies on the tracks at the mishap site.

Web-based social networking clients posted photographs taken at the scene of the mischance which demonstrated a few wagons toppled on a slant alongside the rail line.

"Safeguard specialists arrived and they are pulling bodies from the wagon. I've as of now numbered around 40 bodies they've evacuated," said Rachelle Paden, another traveler.

Camrail said it had sent groups to the site and the harmed were being transported to a neighborhood doctor's facility. Others were headed to Douala. It communicated its sympathies to casualties' families in a post on its authority Facebook page.

A Bollore representative affirmed that a mischance had happened, yet offered no further points of interest.

Numerous rail lines in West and Focal Africa have a notoriety for poor support and neglecting to regard wellbeing standards. Crashes are generally basic.

In spite of the fact that Bollore is for the most part seen as a solid administrator, it encountered another real episode a month ago when part of an extension along a line it controls in Ivory Drift caved in under the heaviness of a cargo prepare.