Igandu railway accident

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The railway accident Igandu occurred on 24 June 2002, as on the single-track Tanganjikabahn ( Tanzania ) a passenger of the Tanzania Railways Corporation on a downward slope, "ran away" and between the stations Igandu and Msagali , approximately at kilometer 390 on a freight train crashed .

Starting position

The passenger train from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma was on the way with around 1,000 passengers in the morning shortly before Dodoma . With 22 fully occupied cars , it was very long and heavy. There was a problem with the braking system in front of Kikombo Station , whereupon the train stopped to safely negotiate the incline. Shortly before, he had crossed a freight train going in the opposite direction.

the accident

In order to get enough momentum for the onward journey up the incline, the engine driver set the train back, but could no longer stop it because the brake finally failed. The reports describe it as a "mechanical problem". The train rolled backwards on the slope. With increasing speed, the train rolled backwards about 35 km for half an hour and also passed through the two stations Munase and Igandu. Of the travelers who noticed the train was out of control, some jumped off along the way. Between the Igandu and Msagali stations, the passenger train met the freight train, which was traveling relatively slowly in the direction of Dar es Salaam, at around 8:30 a.m. 21 cars of the passenger train derailed and some of them pushed themselves into and over one another.

consequences

281 people were killed and more than 400 were seriously injured. 88 bodies were so mutilated that they could no longer be identified . They were buried in a cemetery near Dodoma. The consequences of the accident were compounded by the significant shortage of doctors in the region. The Dodoma hospital was completely overcrowded. Next was missing at the accident scene first heavy-tech tool to the crashed cars to disassemble and quickly gain access to the victims. This did not arrive until evening.

Prime Minister Frederick Sumaye ordered a two-day national mourning . The victims' families and relatives later received compensation from the state-owned Tanzania Railways Corporation in the amount of 100,000 to 500,000 Tanzanian shillings .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Due to this unspecified information and the inadequate map material, the coordinates only give the approximate location of the accident site.
  2. ^ NN: World Briefing .
  3. ^ NN: Tanzania train .
  4. ↑ Hancock.
  5. ↑ Hancock.
  6. ↑ Hancock.
  7. ↑ Hancock; NN: Tanzania train .
  8. ^ NN: World Briefing ; this figure comes from the government's official notification four days after the accident. It can be assumed that more people died of their injuries in the following days.
  9. ^ Harding.
  10. ↑ Hancock.
  11. ↑ Hancock.

Coordinates: 6 ° 17 ′ 48.7 ″  S , 36 ° 5 ′ 24.3 ″  E