Two trains carrying hundreds of passengers collided in Karachi in 2016 killing 21 people. WATCH: Pakistan train collision leaves at least 40 dead, over 100 injured in Sindh province.
One man told BBC Urdu his relatives were travelling for a family wedding that had. Rail accidents are common in Pakistan, which inherited thousands of kilometres (miles) of track and trains from former colonial power Britain.īut the network has seen decades of decline due to corruption, mismanagement and lack of investment.Īt least 75 people died when a train caught fire while travelling from Karachi to Rawalpindi in October 2019. The number of deaths in the collision of two trains in southern Pakistan increased Tuesday to 62, while 28 people remain hospitalized, six of them in a serious condition. People have spoken of the moment they learned their loved ones had died in a major train crash in Pakistan. Mobile phone footage shown on television from the site showed a mangled wreckage, with several green Pakistan railway carriages lying on their side. Umar Tufail, a senior police officer at Daharki confirmed the death toll as 30. Home Jammu and Kashmir Jammu Haji Arif, a terrorist killed on Poonch LoC, was a commander in the Pakistan Army, used to train terrorists at home.
"Several people have been killed and many others trapped inside," the official said. Pakistan News: Two trains collided in Pakistans southern Sindh Province on Monday, killing at least 30 people and injuring 50 others, according to officials. At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured Monday in a train crash in southern Pakistan, police said.Ī spokesperson for Pakistan Railways told AFP a train heading from Karachi to Sargodha, derailed on to a track carrying a service from Rawalpindi in the opposite direction.