At least 100 dead in DRCongo rail crash

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KINSHASA, Aug 3 (AFP): At least 100 people were killed when a goods train jumped the tracks in the Democratic Republic of Congo overnight Thursday, with illegal passengers thought to be among the dead.
"According to our information, at least 100 passengers have perished and dozens have been injured in the derailment of a goods train," said government spokesman and information minister Toussaint Tshilombo Send.
The United Nations mission in Congo (MONUC) said earlier that at least 68 people died and 120 were injured when the train derailed some 170 kilometres (105 miles) north of Kananga, the capital of Western Kasai province.
The injured had been transported to a hospital near the crash site which is in the centre of the country.
State railway operator SNCC official Medard Illunga said the unusually high death toll for an accident involving a goods train had to do with "clandestine passengers who habitually travel aboard goods carriages unbeknownst to SNCC agents".
"Several bodies have been found crowded into the wagons," Illunga said.