A train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90 others as rescue operations completed by early evening, officials said.
Railway officials say the death toll from a train derailment in southern Pakistan has risen to at least 30, with more than 90 others injured
The minister for railways said the crash could be due to a mechanical fault or the result of sabotage. He said an investigation was underway Senior police officer Abid Baloch said from the scene of the accident that the rescue operation was complete: dozens of the injured had been brought to safety and the last flipped car cleared. He said women and children were among the dead and injured.
Lakho, who is in charge of railways in the accident area, said rescue crews took injured passengers to the nearby People's Hospital in Nawabshah. He said the ill-fated Hazara Express was on its way from Karachi to Rawalpindi when 10 cars went off the tracks near the Sarhari railway station off Nawabshah.“Seven members of my family and 22 from my neighborhood were missing and so far we found only four of them, rest are still missing.
Owais Iqbal, a Lahore bound passenger at Karachi railway station said: ”Our train was to depart at 5p.m. Now we have been told that it will leave at 8p.m. It may even get later. We are waiting. We are suffering because of the poor railway system.”
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