KARACHI — At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured Monday in a train crash in southern Pakistan, police said.
A 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.
“Several people have been killed and many others trapped inside,” the official said.
Umar Tufail, a senior police officer at Daharki confirmed the death toll as 30.
Mobile phone footage shown on television from the site showed a mangled wreckage, with several green Pakistan railway carriages lying on their side.
Rail accidents are common in Pakistan, which inherited thousands of …
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