Dozens have been confirmed dead and over a hundred persons injured after trains collided in Pakistan.
Gatekeepers News reports that no fewer than 63 persons died when two passenger trains collided in Sindh, southeast of Pakistan on Monday.
Officials explained that the Millat Express train travelling in Sindh province derailed and landed on another track and the second passenger train, Sir Syed Express train collided with it and overturned.
Gatekeepers News gathered that the two trains were carrying more than a thousand passengers.
Those that died ranged from a months-old infant to a woman who was 81 as the injured were rushed to nearby hospitals by rescue teams.
“We fear more people may die,” Usman Abdullah, Deputy Commissioner of Ghotki district, said on Tuesday.
“Some of the injured people are in a critical condition,” Abdullah said.
Railway engineer, Jahan Zeb said, “this is the most colossal accident I have seen in about 10 years of service.”
Pakistani military dispatched troops, engineers and helicopters to the scene of the incident to help rescuers on Monday.
Syed Ijazul Hassan, a spokesman for the state-owned railway operator, said the operation to find survivors and bodies in the wreckage had been completed and the track will reopen today (Tuesday).
Gatekeepers News reports that fatal train mishaps are common in Pakistan, where the tracks laid during the British colonial rule decades ago have hardly been upgraded.