In pictures: Tanzania rail tragedy

More than 200 people were killed and hundreds injured near the Tanzanian city of Dodoma on Monday when a passenger train suffered a mechanical failure and rolled out of control down a hill before colliding with a goods train and derailing.

Many of the carriages flipped completely upside down

Debris littered the entire crash scene

The passengers' belongings were lined up by the crash site

While anxious relatives waited for news

Lists of the dead and injured were posted for families to check

Family members walked past lines of dead bodies searching for their loved ones

More than 200 coffins are needed to cope with the dead

Meanwhile the survivors are recovering in hospital