At least 15 people Killed in Sudan Train Crash

by Rob Walker | May 5, 2008 at 10:27 am

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13 students from Kordofan University were among the dead when 20 carriages of a train came off the rails near Al-Foula in Sudan during the night.

At least 15 people are reported killed and 28 injured.

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.