Karachi: At least 20 people were killed and 50 others injured today after a passenger train rammed into a stationary train in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, in the country’s second major rail collision in as many months. Three bogies of Zakaria Express were completely destroyed due to the collision in Gaddafi Town in Landhi area early on Thursday morning. Television footage showed mangled and overturned carriages, and local media reported rescuers were working to free people trapped in the wreckage. The accident occurred when the incoming "Zakria Express" from the central city of Multan rammed into the "Fareed Express" from Lahore, as it waited at Quaidabad Station, also known as Jumma Goth, in Karachi's Landi neighborhood. The incident took place when Fareed Express collided with Zakaria Express due to wrong signal given to the latter, Geo News quoted rescue sources as saying. Seemi Jamali, head of ER at Jinnah Hospital, tells CNN she and her team have been treating the injured and receiving the bodies of those killed since the accident occurred. In September, six persons were killed and over 150 others injured when a Karachi-bound passenger train rammed into a stationary freight train near Multan in Punjab province in a pre-dawn accident.
At least 22 people have been killed and 65 injured following a collision of the Bahauddin Zakaria Express with a stationary train at Juma Goth Train station, Karachi, Pakistan.