At least 30 people died and more than 40 were injured this Sunday when a dozen wagons of a train derailed in the province of Sindhin southern Pakistan, as reported by state television, Pakistan TV.
The station showed images of the incident, where a large number of passengers are seen gathered near the derailed wagons, several of them overturned.
The accident took place near Nawabshah district, in Sindh province, when 10 carriages of the train derailed. train Hazara Expresswhich departed from the southern city of Karachi, the spokesman in Sindh for the state railway company, Pakistan Railways, told EFE. Muhammed Anjum.
Rescuers took injured passengers to the nearby Peoples Hospital in Nawabshah.
Train crashes are common on poorly maintained sections in Pakistan, where trains have not been modernized. signaling and communication systems of the colonial era and security standards are bad.