Cameroon: Ten Years After a Massive Train Disaster, Victims Are Still Awaiting Justice
Survivors say compensation remains incomplete as appeals stall and families still search for missing remains after the crash killed 79 people.
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Cameroon's Eseka Rail Disaster Survivors Still Waiting for Justice, 10 Years On
A decade after Cameroon's deadliest rail disaster killed 79 people and injured more than 500, survivors are still living with serious injuries, some compensation remains unpaid and an appeal against the convictions over the crash has yet to be heard. RFI spoke to survivors still living with the consequences of the disaster and to the husband of a woman whose body has never been found.
Ten years after Cameroon's most serious rail accident, the victims' relatives are still unable to grieve. It was October 21, 2016. A Camrail train derailed in Eséka, about 100 kilometres from Yaoundé. 79 people died. Camrail, a subsidiary of the Bolloré group at the time, was found guilty of involuntary homicide by the Cameroonian justice system and sentenced to compensate the victims.
Exactly ten years ago, the derailment of a train connecting Yaoundé to Douala at the level of the town of Eseka left the country in shock. With 79 dead and more than 500 injured, the accident remains as the most serious rail disaster the country has experienced.
Survivors of Cameroon Train Crash Still Seek Justice 10 Years Later – Axadle
A decade after Cameroon’s worst rail disaster, the victims of the Eseka crash are still waiting for justice. The derailment killed 79 people, injured more than 500 and left survivors with chronic pain and permanent disabilities. The Camrail train was travelling from Yaoundé to Douala when it came off the tracks near Eseka on 21 […]
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