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Students die in Sudan train crash
Victims of rail crash include 13 students from Kordofan University.
Last Modified: 05 May 2008 13:58 GMT
At least 15 people, most of them university students, are reported to have been killed and 28 injured after a train derailed in western Sudan.
 
Twenty carriages of the train came off the rails near Al-Foula in South Kordofan while most of the passengers were sleeping, the Al-Ray al-Am daily said on Monday.
The dead include 13 students from Kordofan University, the paper said.
 
The Sudanese authorities excluded sabotage as the cause of Sunday's crash.

An al Jazeera reporter quoted a railway department official as saying the accident was caused by a "technical fault".

  

Sudan has an extensive rail network, much of it built by Britain, the former colonial power, but most of the rolling stock is old.

 

The crash occurred two days after a plane crash near the southern town of Rumbek that killed at least 23 people, including Dominic Dim, Southern Sudan's minister of defence.

 

Justin Yak, a presidential adviser for local government affairs, and his wife were also among the dead.

 

The plane crash was blamed on engine failure.
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