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A TRAIN CRASH in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 60 people, the state rail company and local sources said on Saturday.
Local media quoted the provincial governor Fifi Masuka as saying 60 people had been killed.
“(Currently) the toll is 61 dead, men, women and children (and) 52 injured who have been evacuated,” director of infrastructure, Marc Manyonga Ndambo, at the SNCC train operator, told AFP.
The train was a freight service which had been carrying “several hundred stowaways”, said Manyonga said even though this was prohibited.
“Some of the bodies were still trapped in the wagons that had fallen into the ravines,” he added.
Manyonga said the train was made up of 15 wagons, 12 of which were empty, and was coming from Luen in a neighbouring province destined for the mining town of Tenke, close to Kolwezi.
It derailed at 11:50 pm (2150 GMT) on Thursday at the village of Buyofwe, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) from Kolwezi, “at a place where there are ravines”, into which seven of the 15 wagons fell, he said.
“My team is working hard to clear the track by Monday,” Manyonga added. He did not say how the crash had happened.
Train derailments are common in the DRC, as are shipwrecks of overloaded boats on the country’s lakes and rivers.
Due to the lack of passenger trains or passable roads, people use goods trains to travel long distances.
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Are they really benefitting from WhatsApp’s outage, or is it more that people are ditching WhatsApp since the Facebook takeover?
I deleted my account, and the app from my phone. Barely use it as it is. Find Viber better.
Yeah, I only use viber. Didn’t bother even trying any other messaging app. How many different ways do I need to talk to the same people?
Had both WhatsApp and Viber for a couple of years. When Viber added text messaging (was originally just voice) stopped using WhatsApp altogether.
The stock valuations of these tech companies make no sence ! Twitter never has made a profit and is worth billions !
Never heard of LINE don’t know why they’re bragging. Left whatsapp for viber a long time ago. Joining with Facebook will mean constant technical problems problems
Currently working in S.E. Asia here, Whatsapp is almost nonexistent – Line has pretty much obtained market saturation. It’s a big world out there buddy, and Ireland is a very small pixel in the picture.
Just sayin’
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Understand that… Just stating I’ve never heard of them….. Buddy….
Well you said you don’t know why they’re bragging… Well, 340+ million users and 0 network problems, (ever, in my experience). Facebook buys Whatsapp and an outage occurs within hours.
That’s the reason they were braggin’
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Yep. Any Korean or Japanese person I’ve met here in Asia seem to never even have heard of Viber or Whatsapp. LINE is massive. I prefer it to Viber which I use for my Irish friends. I’d recommend to give it a try.
Ah jasus there’s messaging app fanboi’s now…
No point in staying with a service when there is a better one out there for free.
Viber is so laggy I can’t deal with it. Whatsapp is miles better but now I wonder about privacy now that fb have taken over. No doubt in a few weeks we’ll notice ‘pages you might like suggestions’ will be relevant to private conversations had with mates on what’s app.
I’m no expert but I would expect people to bounce around from one free app to the next. It takes seconds and groups can reform in no time. Facebook will try to cull or own any threat to its platform, which I have to say, for me is becoming less interesting every day.
My daughter in Japan told us about Line over two years ago and we use it all the time, it is a superb messaging and call service, very clear with no delay between Ireland and Japan.
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