Train stranded in Tanzanian floods

Continued flooding in central Tanzania has caused severe disruption to the railways.

A spokesman for the state-owned railway company said six hundred people were still stranded on a train that had been cut off for a day some three hundred kilometres from Dar-es-Salaam.

He said the company was arranging to take the passengers to the capital by bus.

He said two other trains which had been stranded had m,anaged to continue their journeys.

He said only one two-hundred kilometre stretch of line around Dar-es-Salaam remained unaffected.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service