{"id":29505,"date":"2022-03-14T12:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T09:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=29505"},"modified":"2022-03-14T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T09:29:39","slug":"death-toll-in-dr-congo-train-accident-climbs-to-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/14\/death-toll-in-dr-congo-train-accident-climbs-to-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Toll In Dr Congo Train Accident Climbs To 75"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of people known to have died in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The train derailed and fell into a ditch in the south-eastern village of Buyofwe on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a freight service but carried hundreds of stowaways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The information ministry said 125 people were also injured when the train derailed because of \u201ca sudden track cut\u201d .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, who is in the Belgian capital, Brussels, for a medical checkup, has condoled the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UN sponsored Radio Okapi reports that among the injured were four children whose parents died on spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The train was made up of 15 wagons, 12 of them empty, the AFP news agency reports quoting an official from the state railway company SNCC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency ranked the train accident as the third worst in Africa over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people known to have died in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 75. The train derailed and fell into a ditch in the south-eastern village of Buyofwe on Thursday. It was a freight service but carried hundreds of stowaways. The information ministry said 125 people were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":29507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[3875,31,119],"class_list":["post-29505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo-2","tag-featured","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29508,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505\/revisions\/29508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}