MULTAN: Six people died and more than 150 were injured as a passenger train collided with a cargo train on Wednesday. As many as 350 passengers were on board the Awam Express train when it met with the accident.
Railway sources confirmed that the
accident occurred
near Buch Station when the Awam Express
train collided with a cargo train. CPO Dr Rizwan disclosed that six people had died in the
accident and
more than 150 passengers were
injured in the accident. The
injured were shifted to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.
According to the DCO, a person had been trampled underneath the cargo train, causing it to stop. As a result, the Awam Express passenger
train rammed into the stopped cargo
train from behind, causing the accident.
Dozens of passengers remained stranded in the boagies relief operations were underway. Owing to the darkness, rescue officials were using light from mobile phones for visibility. A large amount of women and children were left stranded at the railway station. Passengers at the railway station were experiencing hunger and thirst.
The
injured were shifted to Nishtar Hospital in
Multan while others were transferred to the Shahbaz Sharif General Hospital. According to the DCO, emergency had been imposed in both hospitals to deal with the situation. Doctors at Nishtar Hospital in Multan, where the
injured were shifted to, appealed to the masses to donate blood.
Due to the accident, four boagies of the Awam Express
train overturned, which was on its way from Peshawar to Karachi. Railway authorities confirmed that an investigation was being conducted as to how the
accident occurred and that several ******rs had been instructed to reach the spot where the
accident had taken place.
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