Money for Tanzania crash relatives

A sports hall was converted into a makeshift morgue

About 200 families of victims of the June train crash in Tanzania are to receive some $700 each, the government has announced.

A much smaller amount - about $140 - would also be paid to those injured, said government minister William Lukuvi.

It is thought almost 300 were killed in the crash near Dodoma, but the government said payment would only be made on behalf of the 206 people officially identified and confirmed as victims.

Many of the bodies were so badly disfigured they were not identified and they were buried together in a mass ceremony in Dodoma.

Tanzania's worst-ever train crash happened when a passenger train broke down on a steep hill.

Its brakes failed, and the carriages rolled back at high speed into the path of a following freight train.

The train was carrying more than 1,000 passengers and President Benjamin Mkapa promised an official inquiry at the time.