Thousands cram onto roofs and narrow spaces between wagons of a 50-year old train, risking severed limbs and death.
In Kamina, an important railway node in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo, every day hundreds of people are getting on a train named after a bird, the "swallow". Locally known as the "hirondelle", it is, for the most part, the only link people in remote villages have to the outside world.
More than 2,000 people, three times the train's capacity, squeeze into its carriages, bathrooms are used for storage. For those who aren't able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket, there's always the roof. The train is unkempt, which makes travelling aboard the 'hirondelle' a dangerously risky journey.
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