At least 40 people were killed in a train crash in southern Pakistan, with some of the injured remaining trapped in the wreckage for hours
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—At least 40 people were killed in an early morning train crash in southern Pakistan, the latest in a series of deadly railway accidents in recent years in the country.
Two trains collided around 3:45 a.m. local time on Monday, near the town of Sukkur in the southern province of Sindh. Some injured passengers remained trapped in the wreckage hours after the crash. Local residents and rescue officials used hand tools and a tractor to try to free the injured and dead, before heavy lifting and cutting equipment arrived some five hours after the crash, along with army helicopters to take the injured to hospitals, officials said.
Usman Abdullah, a senior local administration official, said that 40 people had been killed so far and around 100 were injured. Train carriages were mangled and overturned, local television video showed. One local channel reported that a trapped passenger called her home to tell her family where she was trapped in the wreckage, and they alerted rescuers.
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