YAOUNDE, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- A cargo train carrying oil derailed on Monday afternoon near the central station in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, Xinhua's correspondent reported at the scene..

The derailment occurred at 14:10 local time just as the train was leaving the railway station for Ngaoundere.

Two wagons of the cargo train overturned in a curve, pouring out oil from inside the wagons. The leakage blocked hundreds of passersby.

The derailment was the third train accident in less than two months in Cameroon. On Aug. 28, a train loaded with oil from Douala, the West African country's economic capital, caught fire in Obobogo, the southern entrance to Yaounde, leaving two persons dead. The next day, a train with at least 1,000 passengers on board from Ngaoundere derailed at the northern entrance to Yaounde, killing nine people and injuring more than 300 others.