Twelve dead in Senegalese train crash

At least twelve people have been killed and more than two-hundred injured when a train carrying thousands of Muslim pilgrims was derailed outside the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

Witnesses said many of the victims were crashed inside the carriages, which had fallen on their sides.

Many ambulances were sent at the scene of the accident, where cranes and a French military helicopter were helping in the search for those trapped.

The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service