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Report on Tabora train crash out soon
2007-03-07 09:16:58
By Angel Navuri
The official report on the circumstances that led to last week`s Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) passenger train crash near Tabora in which injured at least 71 people, 15 of them seriously, is expected to be ready in three days` time.
Police sources said yesterday that a team of specialists, including police, Army and State intelligence personnel, has been conducting an intensive search alongside interrogations with various people to find clues that would help to nab those feared to have masterminded the suspected sabotage and bring them to justice.
Tabora Regional Police Commander Muhidin Mshihiri said in telephone interview with The Guardian that the matter is being dealt with by a committee drawing members from the Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (Sumatra), TRC, Tanzania People`s Defence Forces, State Intelligence the Police Force and the Infrastructure Development ministry.
He said the report on the on-going investigations would be out `possibly after three or four days`, quickly adding: `However, I`m not so sure if the committee working on the matter will be done by that time.
I`m speaking in my capacity as Tabora RPC and it is obviously too early to reveal what the team has discovered so far.`
The crash involved four coaches full of passengers and occurred at Cheyo A, some six kilometers from the Tabora railway station. The train was heading to Dodoma from Tabora.
The probe is in response to Prime Minister Edward Lowassa’s directive at the scene of the accident that a thorough search be mounted into the tragic incident, with a view to identifying and taking to book all culprits.
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