Pics Injuries As Luxury Rovos Train Slams Into Freight Locomotive In Zimbabwe

A South African luxury train carrying foreign tourists to Zimbabwe for Easter collided with another locomotive on Friday, derailing carriages and injuring several people on board, the operating company and a local rail employee said.

Four crew members of the Rovos Rail train, which was going from Pretoria to the tourist hotspot of Victoria Falls, were hurt in the collision with a freight train in Zimbabwe, the luxury service's spokeswoman Liezl Maclean told AFP.

"There were no injuries in terms of the guests that we are aware of," she told AFP, adding some were under observation.

But a staff member at the local rail service, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorised to speak to media, put the total number of injured at 18.

He said 14 of them were admitted to Gwanda Provincial Hospital, and four to Mater Dei in Bulawayo.