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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Factfinder1(m): 6:32pm On Oct 21, 2017
Blood of Abraham
Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Roon9(m): 6:32pm On Oct 21, 2017
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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by oluwatymylehyn(m): 6:32pm On Oct 21, 2017
This is a miracle. I thank God for your life
Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Decryptor(m): 6:33pm On Oct 21, 2017
Chai! @shinarlaura... Death saw you on the train and said, "this babe too sexy to die now joor"...over to the next person. grin grin grin

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Nobody: 6:33pm On Oct 21, 2017
Thank God.
Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Kimcutie: 6:36pm On Oct 21, 2017
[s]That's how we would have heard that laura is dead[/s] God forbid. Stay good dear.
Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 6:40pm On Oct 21, 2017
Lalas247:
Omg this is serious .. thanks God you made it out ok
How are you feeling now embarassed
The picture looks like a really terrible accident ...

Mynd44 lalasticlala come and see how a God saved this girl o ... hmm we thank God sha

I am good dear... it's exactly a year today the incident happened.

It's something i can never forget in my life but i give God all the glory.

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by EngrBello(m): 6:41pm On Oct 21, 2017
600 dead tolls!
Worst than that of MUGADISHU bombing!
Rip...may this never happen to us in Nigeria and rest of West Africa

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 6:41pm On Oct 21, 2017
Decryptor:
Chai! @shinarlaura... Death saw you on the train and said, "this babe too sexy to die now joor"...over to the next person. grin grin grin


grin grin

Such a scary experience.

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 6:41pm On Oct 21, 2017
EngrBello:
600 dead tolls!
Worst than that of MUGADISHU bombing!
Rip...may this never happen to us in Nigeria and rest of West Africa


Amennnnnn.. not even in my country again

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Lalas247(f): 6:43pm On Oct 21, 2017
shinarlaura:


I am good dear... it's exactly a year today the incident happened.

It's something i can never forget in my life but i give God all the glory.

It is well, when you go to church tomorrow make sure u give thanks wink

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Lalas247(f): 6:43pm On Oct 21, 2017
Kimcutie:
[s]That's how we would have heard that laura is dead[/s] God forbid. Stay good dear.
God forbid angry

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Cyberknight: 6:44pm On Oct 21, 2017
shinarlaura:
By 1:00 pm GMT in Cameroon, our Nation was thrown into mourning. It's been a year since it happened, and I will be so ungrateful to HIM that saved me if I don't share this testimony. It didn't happen in Nigeria, It happened in Cameroon. The media didn't tell the full story of the number of people that died, but you can catch a glimpse of it here;

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/53-killed-cameroon-train-derailment-161021192603296.html

As I entered the Train, I thought it would be one of those smooth rides to my destination, I never knew that the smile of the person that sat beside me would be his last cry.

At some point in the journey, we felt a foul smell. At another point, we could perceive smoke and it became thick gradually. We in the middle coach never knew that several coaches in front had fallen and people were already dead.

When it finally got to our coach, it began wobbling. People were flying off the window into a deep valley. I held onto the iron of the seat before me. Whatever made me not to fly off the window is still what I don't know.

About 600 people dead, More than 700 Injured. But yet I came out unscratched.

Should I call this a Miracle or what?

You can call this a testimony or one-year anniversary of life after the accident, or any other name, I just want to say that I am alive and may God give those who lost their loved ones the fortitude to bear their loss.

RIP to all faithful souls departed. Amen.

Please pardon my grammar. Je suis juste une fille francophone (I am just a french girl)


Interestingly, I was in Douala that day at the train station waiting to take the train to Yaounde. I was to speak at a conference the next day and if you remember the rain had washed out a bridge on the main road connecting the two towns, and not being willing to try Camair-Co, I decided to take the train as the last option. I got there early, and bought a ticket, and we were there until the news finally filtered through around 4ish of the accident at Eseka. The whole place was crowded and the annoying thing was that the authorities did not at any time announce that there would be no train to Yaounde that day, so I spent a whole day at the damn train station. Most annoying.

I ended up not getting to Yaounde that day or the next and was unable to give my presentation.

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 6:44pm On Oct 21, 2017
Lalas247:


It is well, when you go to church tomorrow make sure u give thanks wink

Sure..


I spend half of the day today in church to thank Him...

He deserve it.

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Lalas247(f): 6:45pm On Oct 21, 2017
shinarlaura:


Sure..


I spend half of the day today in church to thank Him...

He deserve it.
wink

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 6:46pm On Oct 21, 2017
Cyberknight:


Interestingly, I was in Douala that day at the train station waiting to take the train to Yaounde. I was to speak at a conference the next day and if you remember the rain had washed out a bridge on the main road connecting the two towns, and not being willing to try Camair-Co, I decided to take the train as the last option. I got there early, and bought a ticket, and we were there until the news finally filtered through around 4ish of the accident at Eseka. The whole place was crowded and the annoying thing was that the authorities did not at any time announce that there would be no train to Yaounde that day, so I spent a whole day at the damn train station. Most annoying.

I ended up not getting to Yaounde that day or the next and was unable to give my presentation.

Wooow...

You re really lucky.. God loves you.

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Nwaoma198(f): 6:47pm On Oct 21, 2017
Jisos shocked

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Cyberknight: 6:48pm On Oct 21, 2017
shinarlaura:


Wooow...

You re really lucky.. God loves you.

Indeed I was, and indeed He does.

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 6:49pm On Oct 21, 2017
DIKEnaWAR:
Congratulations. So you are from Cameroon?

What about that damned oaf Paul Biya? I hear he just left an airport in Europe in his Boeing 777. Such a big clown. Does his wife still bleach and wear funny and expensive hair?

Biya buys wobbly trains for the citizenry and flies first class with his family. I pity your country. We are planning to recolonise you people.

Hahahahaha.

Recolonisation will be such a good idea... plz when will that take place ? wink
Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 6:51pm On Oct 21, 2017
Cyberknight:


Indeed I was, and indeed He does.

Yeah cheesy
Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Damfostopper(m): 6:52pm On Oct 21, 2017
2016 news....... mtcheeew.....

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by lozanni(m): 6:54pm On Oct 21, 2017
@Op, your redeemer liveth. Thank God for his goodness towards you.
RIP to the dead. May we never witness such great tragedy again.
Was the cause of the accident identified? This is very necessary to avoid a future occurrence.
The Spanish train derailment that occurred two years ago was attributed to over-speeding and this prompted the authorities to install automatic speed breakers, which forces a speeding train to lose speed automatically to a safer speed level.

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by BluntBoy(m): 6:56pm On Oct 21, 2017
shocked
You are blessed, shinarlaura.

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 6:56pm On Oct 21, 2017
BiafranBushBoy:
Jesu kristi shocked

lalasticlala, come and see!!

We still need fine girls in the world, so please don't die!! cry

Before ugly girls go plenty pass!!



meanwhile==>> Have you seen my signature?

grin grin
Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 6:58pm On Oct 21, 2017
BluntBoy:
shocked

You are blessed, shinarlaura.

Oh yes I am wink

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by aminusabaru(m): 7:03pm On Oct 21, 2017
BiafranBushBoy:
Jesu kristi shocked
lalasticlala, come and see!!
We still need fine girls in the world, so please don't die!! cry
Before ugly girls go plenty pass!!


meanwhile==>> Have you seen my signature?

bush boy
Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by HazardCosta(m): 7:04pm On Oct 21, 2017
Do u mean that you were heading to some parts of cameroon from Nigeria?
Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 7:04pm On Oct 21, 2017
lozanni:
@Op, your redeemer liveth. Thank God for his goodness towards you.
RIP to the dead. May we never witness such great tragedy again.
Was the cause of the accident identified? This is very necessary to avoid a future occurrence.
The Spanish train derailment that occurred two years ago was attributed to over-speeding and this prompted the authorities to install automatic speed breakers, which forces a speeding train to lose speed automatically to a safer speed level.

Amen


Yes it was caused by overloading.

That particular day, around 2am, the road linking yaounde to Douala was divided into two (that still remains a mystery to what caused it), so almost everyone travelling that day was going for the train. Instead of the normal 8 coaches that the train normally carries, it went for 18 coaches coupled with the so much population.

That was a black Friday In cameroon.

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by shinarlaura(f): 7:05pm On Oct 21, 2017
HazardCosta:
Do u mean that you were heading to some parts of cameroon from Nigeria?

No. I am in Cameroon.
Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by ibietela2(m): 7:07pm On Oct 21, 2017
congrats to you

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by streetzdreamz(m): 7:22pm On Oct 21, 2017
its cool to be appreciative, I see threads like this and I can't believe I survived three road crashes which claimed lives, but still didn't attribute my survival to Gods mercies,I just shrug it off, @op you were lucky and may his mercies continue to radiate over you......

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Re: How I Was Saved From A Train Accident That Killed 600 People - My Testimony by Eazybay(m): 7:26pm On Oct 21, 2017
Lalas247:
Omg this is serious .. thanks God you made it out ok
How are you feeling now embarassed
The picture looks like a really terrible accident ...

Mynd44 lalasticlala come and see how a God saved this girl o ... hmm we thank God sha


Signs and symptoms of ajebo grin grin grin

Did you notice you're the only one who asked after her current well-being on the thread?

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