2023-08-06 10:30:01
At least 15 people have died in a train crash in Pakistan. Around 50 other passengers were injured when the train derailed in Sindh province, a police official said on Sunday. According to initial findings, eight wagons derailed. Rescue workers rushed to the scene of the accident near the city of Nawabshah. Pakistan’s Railway Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq said the train went off the rails at low speed.
“It would be premature to talk about the cause of the accident, which could be mechanical failure or an act of terrorism,” Rafiq said. A state of emergency has been declared in hospitals in the region.
Fatal train accidents are not uncommon in Pakistan. The tracks were laid around a century ago under British colonial rule and have hardly been renewed since then. Aside from aging railroad tracks, bombings and weak security measures have been the causes of hundreds of deaths in train accidents in the South Asian country in the past.
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