Congo Freight Train Derailment Kills 75 in South

Congo Freight Train Derailment Kills 75 in South
A derailed freight train in Congo is seen in a file photo. Lionel Healing/AFP via Getty Images
The Associated Press
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At least 75 people have died after a train derailed in Congo’s southern Lualaba province in Kinteta village.

The toll from the freight train derailment last week rose from 60 to at least 75 over the weekend, Lualaba’s provincial minister of interior Deodat Kapenda said. Those dead were likely illegal stowaways, according to U.N. Radio Okapi.