50 Top 10 Lists of 2007

Top 10 Man-Made Disasters

#10. Congo Train Derailment

Eight cars fell off the tracks and seven of them rolled over when the brakes failed on a passenger train traveling between the cities of Ilebo and Kananga on Aug. 1. Train crews had to unhitch the locomotive and go in search of help, and the injured were carried to a hospital six miles away on bicycles and on people's backs. By the time recovery crews pulled the last bodies from the wreckage, the death toll stood at about 100.

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