Kindu rail accident

In the railway accident Likeri by a bridge people were on 28 November 2005 south of Kindu swept off the roofs of a train in the Democratic Republic of Congo. About 60 people died.

Starting position

The few trains that travel in the Democratic Republic of Congo are often overstaffed, and the roofs are of travelers - taken and goods - often black drivers.

The accident occurred on the railway line Kamina - Kindu, about 160 km south of Kindu, which is about the Likeri station, in the province of Maniema. The train of the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer du Congo sailed on his journey from Lubumbashi to Kindu, a bridge, a tributary of the Lualaba over the River Lufubu. Its current is very strong at this point.

Accident

The accident occurred at about 9:00. As the train crossed the steel bridge whose superstructure swept numerous there overlapping pieces of luggage and travelers from the roofs of the locomotive and the car in the river. Here, about 60 people died and an unknown number was also injured.