At least 32 bodies – and of the them children – have been recovered.

More than 70 people urgently need medical attention.

The death toll in the derailment of a freight train carrying stowaways – many of them hanging off the side of the train – is expected to rise when recovery teams lift wagons overturned in the Luembe River.

The crash in central Kasai province is the third in a month.

Five passengers died in a rail accident weeks ago.

The decrepit track and barely serviceable locomotives date back sixty years to the Congo’s colonial times.

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