SA luxury train Rovos Rail smashes into freight train in Zimbabwe

A South African luxurious prepare carrying international vacationers to Zimbabwe for Easter collided with one other locomotive on Friday, derailing carriages and injuring a number of folks on board, the working firm and a neighborhood rail worker stated.

4 crew members of the Rovos Rail prepare, which was going from Pretoria to the vacationer hotspot of Victoria Falls, had been damage within the collision with a freight prepare in Zimbabwe, the luxurious service’s spokeswoman Liezl Maclean instructed AFP.

“There have been no accidents when it comes to the visitors that we’re conscious of,” she instructed AFP, including some had been below remark.

Admitted to hospital

However a workers member on the native rail service, talking on situation of anonymity as a result of he was unauthorised to talk to media, put the overall variety of injured at 18.

He stated 14 of them had been admitted to Gwanda Provincial Hospital, and 4 to Mater Dei in Bulawayo.

He didn’t specify what number of had been passengers or crew, nor if the rely included any injured on the freight prepare.

Pictures shared on social media confirmed rescue staff carrying a person on a stretcher by a niche within the mangled roof of the wreckage.

The incident in Zimbabwe’s southern city of Gwanda concerned the Rovos Rail prepare and a freight prepare operated by the Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway service.

At the very least 47 vacationers had been on the Rovos Rail prepare on the time of the accident, in response to Maclean.

It was not instantly clear what had prompted the accident.

Established in 1989, Rovos says it provides “bespoke prepare safaris by the center of Africa,” with journeys from South Africa’s Cape City to Tanzania’s coastal metropolis of Dar Es Salaam.

The Victoria Falls bundle contains a three-or-four night time 1 400km journey going from Pretoria in South Africa to Zimbabwe’s second metropolis of Bulawayo.