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The company that manages the Mozambican railway line on which six people died in a collision between a train and a car on Sunday has blamed the driver of the vehicle for the accident.
“The cause of the accident is under investigation, but preliminary data indicate that the accident resulted from the non-observance of the rules for crossing the railway line by the driver of the vehicle,” Nacala Logistics said in a statement on Monday (15-08).
All six passengers in the all-terrain vehicle died when it was hit by the train on a level crossing in Cateme, Moatize district, Tete province in central Mozambique at around 2:30 p.m.. The vehicle was pushed a full kilometre down the track before the train was brought to a halt.
“The incident was immediately reported to the Operational Control Centre in Moatize, and fire and ambulance teams were immediately called,” Nacala Logistics adds in its statement.
According to the company that manages the line, the 118-wagon train belongs to the Vulcan mining company which, at the end of April this year, concluded the purchase of the coal-mining assets of Brazilian company Vale in a deal worth US$270 million (€253 million).
READ: Mozambique: Six killed in Moatize rail accident – Notícias
The 900-kilometre ‘Northern Logistics Corridor’ railway connects the coal mines in Tete province to the Port of Nacala on the Indian Ocean, from where the cargo is exported, mainly to Asia.
Vulcan is a private Indian company, part of the Jindal Group. It has a market value of US$18 billion (€16.8 billion), and already has a presence in Mozambique, in the shape of the Chirodzi mine, also in Tete province.
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