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At least 15 passengers were killed and 50 more injured when a train derailed near the Pakistani town of Nawabshah in southern Sindh province on Sunday.
The Hazara Express was on its way from Karachi to Rawalpindi when ten cars derailed near the Sarhari railway station off Nawabshah, said senior railway officer Mahmoodur Rehman Lakho. Lakho is in charge of railways in the accident area, reports AP.
Lakho said rescue crews took injured passengers to the nearby Peoples Hospital in Nawabshah.
Mohsin Sayal, another senior railway officer, said train traffic has been suspended on the main railway line as repair trains have been dispatched to the scene.
He said alternative travel arrangements and medical care will be made available for the train's passengers.
Train crashes often occurred on poorly maintained railways tracks in Pakistan where colonial-era communications and signal systems haven't been modernized and safety standards are poor.
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