At least 22 killed, over 50 injured in Pakistan's train accident
STORY: At least 22 killed, over 50 injured in Pakistan's train accident
DATELINE: Aug. 6, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:14
LOCATION: Islamabad
CATEGORY: OTHERS
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1. various of the accident site
STORYLINE:
At least 22 people were killed and over 50 others injured on Sunday after a passenger train derailed in the Sanghar district of Pakistan's southern Sindh province, local police said.
The accident took place when 10 coaches of the Hazara Express train derailed when it was crossing a canal bridge near Sarhari town in the Shahdadpur area of the district, Muhammad Younis Chandio, deputy inspector general of police of the region, told the media.
Following the accident, police and rescue teams rushed to the site, rescued injured passengers stuck in the derailed coaches and shifted them to nearby hospitals.
The official feared that the death toll might further rise as several bodies and injured are still stuck inside the coaches. Some of the coaches have already been cleared, and the rescue workers are
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