Reuters - Two trains
collided in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing at least 16
people, police said, in the country's second major rail collision in less than
two months.
Television
footage showed mangled and overturned carriages, and media reported rescuers
were working to free people trapped in the wreckage.
Train traffic
between Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, and the rest of the country was
suspended after the collision near the city's Landi Railway Station, television
news channels reported.
"Death
toll is 16 until now," Javen Akbar Riaz, a senior police officer in
Karachi, told Reuters by phone.
At least 40
injured were brought to Karachi's Jinnah Hospital, said Dr. Seemin Jamali, Head
of the Emergency Department.
The collision
occurred between the Zakaria Express and Fareed Express trains, media reported.
In September,
at least four people were killed and 93 injured when an express train collided
with a freight train near the city of Multan in Punjab province.
Pakistan's
colonial-era railway network has fallen into disrepair in recent decades due to
chronic under-investment and poor maintenance.
Reuters
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