"It is a serious accident. Rescue teams have reached the scene and at least 15 passengers have died and 45 people are injured," Khawaja Saad Rafique told reporters.
The scene of the accident in Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan on August 6, 2023. Photo: AFP
Local media reported that the derailment occurred near Sahara railway station in Nawabshah city in the southern Sindh province.
"The Hazara Express was travelling from Karachi to Abbottabad, eight coaches were derailed," Mohsin Syal, a railway official, told HUM News.
Ijaz Shah, a provincial railway official, said several passengers had died and a rescue train had been dispatched to the scene.
Images posted on local media showed dozens of people at the scene, with some windows smashed to help passengers escape from crushed or overturned carriages.
In June 2021, two trains collided near Daharki in Sindh, killing at least 65 people and injuring about 150 others.
In that accident, an express train derailed onto the opposite track and a second passenger train crashed into the wreckage about a minute later.
In October 2019, at least 75 passengers died in a fire on the Tezgam Express, while a collision between two trains at Ghotki killed more than 100 people in 2005.
Just last June, a particularly serious train accident occurred in India, Pakistan's neighbor, involving three trains and killing nearly 300 people.
Huy Hoang (according to AFP, CNA)
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