Eyewitness
By Andrew Harding East Africa correspondent, Igandu

I am standing in the middle of the crash site, right next to a huge crane, which I can hear in the background, busily lifting up one of the mangled train carriages.

Rescue workers are using the crane and cutting equipment - they have now given up hope of discovering any more survivors.

No more survivors are thought to be inside the carriages

There is a group of welders who've just walked past carrying oxyacetylene torches.

They're starting to cut up some of the carriages to try to get inside to find more of the dead bodies.

The death toll here at the moment is 162 officially, but since I arrived I've counted at least 10 more bodies being brought out of the wreckage and I've seen at least three more that are still trapped inside.

They are still cutting bodies from the wreckage here and finding new ones trapped in the mangled carriages.

Crushed

Some of the carriages have been crushed beyond recognition.

The ground is littered with personal belongings: luggage, shoes, schoolbooks.

Soldiers using plastic bags for gloves are sifting through the wreckage looking for body parts.

Hundreds of onlookers have surrounded the site, some like 20-year-old Felix are survivors.

He said he jumped from the runaway train before it crashed.

He fears his friend is dead and still trapped somewhere in the carriages.

Tanzania's President Benjamin Mkapa has visited the site.

For a poor country he said, they had responded as quickly as they could to this national tragedy.