At least 28 killed in train crash in Pakistan’s Sindh province

It was unclear what triggered the crash. Pakistan’s railway minister, Khawaja Saad Rafique, mentioned the prepare had been operating at a comparatively gradual velocity of 28 miles per hour when it crashed close to Nawabshah metropolis in Sindh, Pakistan’s second-most-populous province.

“It may very well be a technical fault, or it may very well be an act of sabotage,” mentioned Rafique, including that an investigation is underway.

Officers mentioned a number of youngsters have been among the many injured, and images from the scene confirmed overturned and mangled passenger vehicles.

Pakistan’s getting old railway community has lengthy lacked funding, and there was mounting criticism of inadequate security checks — components that contributed to a lot of main railway accidents prior to now.

Two years in the past, 65 individuals have been killed when two trains collided in the identical province the place Sunday’s incident came about. A gasoline explosion and fireplace on a prepare in Punjab province killed over 70 individuals in 2019.

Noack reported from Paris. Haq Nawaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, contributed to this report.