Dozens killed in Pakistan train crash | DW News

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More than 30 people were killed in southern Pakistan when two express trains collided. An express train derailed and a packed inter-city train slammed into it. Some passengers are still trapped in the wreckage. The cause of the crash is not yet clear. Train accidents are common in Pakistan, where signal systems and ageing tracks are poorly maintained. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered an investigation.

Just before dawn one train derailed, falling into the path of another. Hours after the crash, rescue teams and local volunteers are still trying to free trapped passengers.

The injured are being taken to the local hospital, where medical workers rush to save the lives of those pulled from the wreckage. But authorities say the remote location of the crash has slowed the rescue effort.

Much of Pakistan’s rail infrastructure is left over from the British colonial era. While the cause of this crash is still unknown, accidents are all too common on these rundown railways.

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In This Story: Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It has a population exceeding 212.2 million, including the world’s second-largest Muslim population. It has an area of 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles).

Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

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