A rail disaster in the south of Congo-Brazzaville killed “several dozen” people, the head of the country’s CFCO rail company said on Tuesday.
The accident happened in the early hours of Tuesday about 60Km from the southern city of Pointe Noire, said Joseph Sauveur El Bez, managing director of the Chemin de fer Congo-ocean (CFCO) company.
“There was a grave train accident during the night,” he said. “There are dozens of victims and injured.”
He said bodies of the dead and the injured had been taken to morgues and hospitals in Pointe Noir. The Transport Ministry said it did not have a toll from the accident which happened between Bilinga and Tchitondi. Officials were not immediately able to give details of the accident.
– AFP
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