At least three killed in train collision near Hyderabad

F.P. Report

KARACHI: At least three people lost their lives on Thursday when a passenger train collided with a freight train at Makli Shah, near Hyderabad.

Station Superintendent Muhammad Rizwan said the Jinnah Express passenger train going from Karachi to Lahore collided with the stationary freight train near Latifabad area of Hyderabad.

“A driver, an assistant driver and a guard lost their lives in the incident outside Hyderabad at a signal crossing,” said Federal Railways Minister Shiekh Rashid Ahmed. “All passengers are safe”. He said the matter was being investigated and a brief report on it would be released within an hour.

Visuals from the scene showed the passenger train’s engine and at least one bogey severely damaged from the accident. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital for immediate treatment.

Station Superintendent Mohammad Rizwan said that the Jinnah Express crashed into the freight train possibly because the train driver wasn’t able to get the signal.

A team of Sindh Rangers has reached at the site of the incident to assist the rescue operations.

MS Civil Hospital Dr Mubeen said that two bodies were brought to the hospital while one critically injured passenger is under treatment. “As many as seven ambulances were sent to the site of the incident.”

Both the deceased and the injured have not yet been identified, he added.