A GOODS train derailed near Cement Siding in Bulawayo on Saturday. Railways officials say a locomotive pulling another went off the railway tracks under yet to br verified circumstances, and they both overturned.

The crew had been taken to a local hospital for treatment, but the state of their injuries could not be ascertained.

The service was being operated by the Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway company. The locomotives were due to pull wagons loaded with cement from PPC Cement, about 5km east of the city.

This becomes the second train derailment inside a week after another goods train hit a truck and derailed near Beitbridge on the tracks leading to Harare.

The Beitbridge-Harare road was blocked for two days, before engineers from BBR managed to move the wagon blocking the road.

Zimbabwe has been hit by a spate of accidents over the past fortnight on both its rail and road networks. Many lives have been lost, leaving hundreds injured.