Fifty-five people are dead and 600 injured after a passenger train derailment in Cameroon, Radio France Internationale reported Saturday, According to dpa. The government had earlier put the death toll at 53 after Friday's accident in Eseka, about 120 kilometres from the capital Yaounde. Local reports said the train, which had about 20 carriages, started developing problems near Eseka, with wagons gradually detaching themselves from the convoy. Some wagons fell into a ravine, ejecting passengers, according to RFI. Bodies were strewn on the site, some of them crushed by wreckage. The train was carrying more than 1,000 people, including hundreds of extra passengers who had sought rail transport after the collapse of a bridge blocked a road linking Yaounde to Douala, the country's economic capital, RFI reported. Local media blamed ageing rails.
