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Death toll climbs to 75 in southeastern DRCongo train derailment

File photo of a train near Lubumbashi, DR Congo, in 2011. © PHIL MOORE/AFP

The death toll from a freight train that derailed over the weekend in Lualaba, southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has risen from 60 to 75 after more bodies were discovered, says officials.

The train, with a 14-car trailer, carried more than 100 tonnes of freight bound for Lubumbashi when a cut in the tracks which caused the train and wagons to fall into a ravine, according to National Railway Company of Congo (SNCC) Director Fabien Mutomb.

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