More Than 150 Feared Killed in Pakistan Crash
More than 150 people were feared killed in southern Pakistan early today when a passenger train rammed into a freight train in what railroad police said could be the worst-ever such accident in the country.
“My calculations are that more than 150 were killed,” the head of the Edhi Trust Ambulance Service said by telephone from the disaster site.
Government officials said they could not confirm how many were killed at the crash at the Sangi train station near the town of Sukkur, about 240 miles north of Karachi.
They said troops are being brought in to help pull the wounded and dead from the twisted mass of wood and steel.
Hundreds of villagers, carrying kerosene lanterns to light up the wreckage, rushed to the scene after hearing the impact and the shrieks of the injured.
Doctors working at nearby hospitals said dozens of bodies had been brought in. They appealed urgently for blood donations to treat the injured.
The official APP news agency said four cars of the passenger train had been destroyed in the impact and three others damaged.
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