Rail crash in central Tanzania kills at least 100

Associated Press WriterDAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) -- A passenger train rolled back into an oncoming cargo train in central Tanzania on Monday, killing at least 100 people and injuring 800 more, state-run radio reported.

Radio Tanzania said the government has declared two days of mourning.

As many as 1,000 people may have been on the train when the accident occurred in Igandu village near Mpwapwa, 30 miles southeast of Dodoma, said Sukulu Sudi, a spokeswoman for the Tanzania Railways Corporation.

The state-owned corporation said all the passenger train's coaches, except one second class coach, derailed and overturned.

The corporation said in a statement that the train was "propelling without control."

Radio Tanzania said the passenger train had 15 coaches.

A police source in Dodoma, the administrative capital, said the passenger train's brakes failed.

The police official, who did not want to be identified, said he saw bodies being ferried away from the accident in a truck.

The train was traveling from Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital, to Mwanza and Kigoma in western Tanzania.

Parliament, which was meeting in Dodoma, was adjourned and legislators led by Prime Minister Fredrick Sumaye visited the scene of the accident.