Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Benaleka train accident occurred on August 1, 2007 near Benaleka in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 100 people and seriously injuring 128 moreThe accident happened in a remote location 105 miles west of Kananga in West Kasai province at 23:00 and involved the derailment of a goods train travelling between Ilebo and Kananga on which hundreds of people were travelling illegally, a common practice in Congo, The crash was caused by the failure of the train's brakes, seven of the train's ten wagons (which people were riding on top of) overturned, trapping many people underneath. The driver was able to detach the locomotive and go for help. Many of the injured were carried by bicycle or on people's back to the nearest hospital, six miles away according to Radio Okapi.. }
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- Benaleka_train_accident abstract "The Benaleka train accident occurred on August 1, 2007 near Benaleka in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 100 people and seriously injuring 128 moreThe accident happened in a remote location 105 miles west of Kananga in West Kasai province at 23:00 and involved the derailment of a goods train travelling between Ilebo and Kananga on which hundreds of people were travelling illegally, a common practice in Congo, The crash was caused by the failure of the train's brakes, seven of the train's ten wagons (which people were riding on top of) overturned, trapping many people underneath. The driver was able to detach the locomotive and go for help. Many of the injured were carried by bicycle or on people's back to the nearest hospital, six miles away according to Radio Okapi.".