{"id":29444,"date":"2023-08-06T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=29444"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T13:38:43","slug":"train-derailment-in-pakistan-kills-30-injures-over-80-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/29444","title":{"rendered":"Train derailment in Pakistan kills 30, injures over 80 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

KARACHI: At least 30 people were killed and 80 injured as 8 bogies of a local train named: Hazara Express derailed Sunday near Sahara Railway Station in Sindh’s Nawabshah district, 275 kilometres away from Karachi, officials said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Geo News, Commissioner Benazirabad division Abbas Baloch said in a statement that at least 30 died in the incident while passengers are still stranded in a bogie.<\/p>\n

He said a relief train is also about to arrive and emergency has been imposed in hospitals of the district.<\/p>\n

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Benazirabad Deputy Inspector General of Police Younis Chandio said that nine out of 10 wrecked bogies had been cleared, with injured and deceased being pulled out.<\/p>\n

World Asia reported: \u201cThis is quite a big accident,\u201d railway minister Khawaja Saad Rafique told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere can be two reasons: first that it was a mechanical fault, or the fault was created – it might be a sabotage. We will investigate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were chaotic scenes at the Nawabshah Trauma Centre as ambulances and private cars ferried the injured for treatment.<\/p>\n

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One man leapt from the back of an ambulance clutching a child, his clothes soaked in blood, while a woman moaned in pain as she was carried in on a stretcher.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know what happened, we were just sitting inside,\u201d said one dazed woman.<\/p>\n

Business Recorder reported: Saad Rafique said that an act of sabotage could be among the reasons for the derailment of multiple Hazara Express coaches, which killed more than a dozen people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere could be two possible reasons for the accident. Either it is a mechanical fault in the line or a fault was developed. It could be an act of sabotage or mechanical fault,\u201d he told reporters at a press conference in Lahore.<\/p>\n

He, however, said the federal government railways inspector would decide the reason for the accident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hazara Express was travelling from Karachi to Abbottabad, eight coaches have derailed,\u201d Mohsin Syal, a railway official, told local media.<\/p>\n

Ijaz Shah, a provincial railway official, told AFP that several passengers were killed and that a relief train has been dispatched to the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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