Death toll rises to 63 in Pakistan train collision
The Hindu
The collision took place in Ghotki when an express train barrelled into another that had derailed minutes earlier on June 7.
Death toll from the rose to 63 on June 8 after rescuers pulled 12 more bodies from crumpled cars a day after the crash, officials said. The collision took place on a dilapidated railway track in Ghotki, a district in the southern Sindh province, when an express train barrelled into another that had derailed minutes earlier, before dawn, on June 7. Most of the passengers — there were about 1,100 on both trains — were asleep when the Millat Express, travelling between the southern port city of Karachi to Sargodha in eastern Punjab province, derailed and many of its cars overturned. As passengers scrambled to get out, another passenger train, the Sir Syed Express, crashed into the derailed coaches.More Related News