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The death toll in a Congo-Brazzaville rail disaster has risen to 60, an official said Tuesday, with at least 80 seriously hurt and 200 injured, according to other officials.
"There are 60 bodies in the morgue at Pointe Noire," said a member of the crisis cell dealing with the accident. The official added that the cell had counted 77 injured including 13 seriously, and a further 73 injured at a second hospital, although the official did not have figures for other hospitals.
An administration official in Pointe Noire earlier said the toll stood at 49 dead and 280 injured including 80 in a serious condition.
The accident happened in the early hours of Tuesday about 60 kilometres from Pointe Noire, said Joseph Sauveur El Bez, managing director of the Chemin de fer Congo-ocean (CFCO) company.
