Dozens injured after several carriages of Hazara Express train derailed in Nawabshah, Sindh province.
“This is quite a big accident,” railway minister Khawaja Saad Rafique told reporters on Sunday. “According to the information so far, 28 passengers have been killed and many are injured.”
Rafique said at least 1,000 passengers were aboard the train when it derailed on a section of track where no faults had been reported.
About 50 people were injured in the accident, Muqarrab Khan, a local police officer from the Sanghar district of Sindh, told the dpa news agency.
Source: Pakistan passenger train derails, killing 28 people
