A luxury train carrying foreign tourists, most of them Americans, derailed Wednesday in South Africa's capital, killing two crew members and injuring dozens of people as coaches flipped and crumpled against one another, AP reported. The voyage had begun in Cape Town and was close to its destination when 17 coaches of the Rovos Rail train derailed just outside a station in Pretoria, said Johan Pieterse of the capital's community safety department. Pieterse said two people died at the scene. «Patients were strewn all over the scene,» said Werner Vermaak, spokesman for a private ambulance company ER24, the South African Press Association reported. One of the victims was pregnant. Emergency worker Chris Botha told SAPA the pregnant woman went into labor immediately after the accident, possibly from the force of the impact, but neither she nor her baby survived. The accident comes just seven weeks before hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists are expected to descend upon South Africa for the World Cup. -- SPA
