50 feared dead dozens injured as train derails in Pakistan

MIRPURKHAS. Pakistan. An express train (KARACHI-LAHORE) packed with holiday teavellers is reported to have derailed in South Pakistan near Mehrabpur about 400 kms north of Karachi.It was early Wednesday when 12 of it’s 16 boggies went off the rails. Atleast 50 passengers died in the incident.The injured number many fold the dead. officials say. The resque squad recovered 50 bodies from the wreckage and,Para jugar los juegos que el poker gratis on line provee a sus jugadores debes usar una computadora y debes tener una conexion de Internet buena. equipments being broughrt for cutting and recovering the dead from other carriages,said a senior police officer.
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A villager named Azhar Ali Rajpar,who heard the crash and reached the scene said that he had seen the dead bodies and a huge number of injured people around.The resque workers are facing difficulties in their resque operations.The over loded train had derailed at about 2 am Tuesday. The passengers were travelling home on the Islamic holisay of Eidul Adha.The cause of the incident is under investigation.
According to Mayor of Mehrabpur Farooq Ahmed Leghari nine people who died along with 80 inhured were rushed to the city hospital.

A special coach was reported to have been attached to the train as a wedding party had booked it reports said Maqsoodun Nabi,a police officer adding that the train was already carrying 700 passengers.

Not to forget the incident of October last when a speeding train hit a bus at a railway
crossing near Lahore leaving behind 12 dead.As many as 130 passengers had lost tbeir lives in JULY 2005 When three trains collided in south of Pakistan.

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