At least 19 people were on Thursday killed and 50 others injured after a passenger train crashed into a stationary train in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, in the country’s second major rail collision in as many months.
The accident occurred in Gaddafi Town in landhi area here at 7.18 am when Zakaria Express collided with the stationary Fareed Express at Juma Goth Train station. Two bogies of Fareed Express and one bogie of Zakaria Express were completely destroyed in the collision.
TV footage showed mangled and overturned carriages, and local media reported rescuers were working to free people trapped in thewreckage.
Fareed Express was coming to Karachi from lahore, while Zakaria Express had set off from Multan.