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Cameroon: Ten years after a massive train disaster, victims are still awaiting justice

Cameroon: Ten years after a massive train disaster, victims are still awaiting justice
France 24 Thursday 22 October 2026, 14:23 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Video contentVideo Cameroon: Ten years after a massive train disaster, victims are still awaiting justice Issued on: Share It has been ten years since a Cameroon National Railway Intercity train travelling between Yaounde and Douala derailed and became the country's worst ever railway disaster. Seventy-nine people were killed and hundreds were injured.
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