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Kenya train crashes into homes in Nairobi's Kibera slum | Kenya train crashes into homes in Nairobi's Kibera slum |
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Several people have been injured after a freight train crashed into homes in the sprawling Nairobi slum of Kibera, reports from Kenya say. | Several people have been injured after a freight train crashed into homes in the sprawling Nairobi slum of Kibera, reports from Kenya say. |
The train derailed while passing through the slum - one of Africa's largest - on its way to Uganda. | |
Kenya's Red Cross has tweeted to say scores of people are feared trapped in their damaged homes. | Kenya's Red Cross has tweeted to say scores of people are feared trapped in their damaged homes. |
Journalists at the scene said residents were angry at the slow pace of the rescue effort. | |
Isaac Ongiri from the Daily Nation newspaper said police were trying to find a way of getting rescue equipment into place to help reach the trapped people. | |
But he said the area was heavily-populated and hard to get to. | |
"Navigating through the shanties to get to the scene is difficult," he told the BBC. | |
Other reports suggested the large crowds that had gathered at the scene were also hampering rescue efforts. | |
There are also reports that a tank containing flammable fuel is leaking on to the tracks. | |
Teams from the Red Cross and St John Ambulance are helping the rescue. | |
At least six people have so far been taken to hospital, Transport Minister Joseph Kamau told reporters from Kibera. | |
Mr Kamau said residents in Kibera had long been warned not to put up houses right next to the railway line. | |
"We have always warned people against encroaching on the line," he was quoted as saying. | |
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