/ 25 June 1999

GOODS TRAIN DERAILS IN MPUMA

AN electric locomotive pulling 18 goods trucks derailed on Thursday at Rosenegal near Middelburg in Mpumalanga, causing damage of more than R100 million. Police said that the train driver and his assistant were missing. The train was on the way to deliver titanium slabs to Highveld Steel at Witbank when the accident happened at about noon. The whole train fell on its side and some of the titanium slabs were thrown out of the goods trucks.