2 killed, 4 missing in S. Pakistan's train blaze
STORY: 2 killed, 4 missing in S. Pakistan's train blaze
DATELINE: April 28, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:20
LOCATION: Islamabad
CATEGORY: OTHERS
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the fire scene
STORYLINE:
Two people were killed and four others went missing after a passenger train caught fire in Pakistan's southern Sindh province early Thursday morning, the Pakistan Railways said in a statement.
The fire erupted in the business class carriage of the Karachi Express, which was heading towards Sindh's provincial capital Karachi from east Punjab province, at 12:30 a.m. local time and the driver immediately pulled it over near a village, the statement said.
One of the passengers, a 40-year-old woman, jumped off the train to escape the fire and received fatal wounds, while the other deceased has not been identified yet, the Pakistan Railways said.
Four people went missing after the blaze and the search is underway.
It took firefighters 40 minutes to put out the fire, and the train resumed its journey at 6:45 a.m. af
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