I just heard, about 500 people passed away. There was a collision b/w Quetta Express and another train, and then after that Tez Gaam (Karachi Express) collided, most people were asleep at that time, and the authorities estimate about 500 people dead. Rescue teams from Karachi underway.
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Oh my God! :( :( :(
My prayers for the poor victims.
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damn....thats horrible. Inna Lillah e wa Ina alehe Rajawoon.
signal failure? other equipment issues? foul play?
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According to reports, this was one horrendous accident. Queta express was stationed for repair on the track, when it was hit by the Karachi express, and as a result 3 cabins rolled over to the other track. Unfortunately at the same time Taizgam was headed for Pindi on the other track and was struck by those three cabins. In total 15 cabins were totally destroyed.
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They are saying it was because of signal misinterpretation
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cnn reports 150 people.
very sad incident.
god bless the victims and their families.
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Maybe 500 was wrong, the reporter on GEO who presented the initial report said there were more than 500 casualties.
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3Pak trains collide, 100 die
Zarar Khan in Karachi | July 13, 2005 09:34 IST
Last Updated: July 13, 2005 11:41 IST
Three passenger trains have collided early Wednesday in southern Pakistan derailing 13 cars and killing at least 100 people and injuring hundreds more, officials have said.
The accident occurred at about 4 am when a train sitting in a station near Ghotki, in southern Sindh province, was rear-ended by a second train, Abdul Aziz, a senior controller at Pakistan Railways, said.
Aziz said the collision caused several cars to derail and spill over onto another track, where they were struck by the third train, causing further derailment.
“It is a very gruesome situation,” local police official Aga Mohammed Tahir told The Associated Press.
“Rescue workers have started to pull the dead and injured out. There were many people inside and there are a lot of casualties.”
Tahir said that “dozens” of people had been killed or injured, but that no exact figures would be possible for some time.
He said at least 13 train cars derailed, and that the injured were being taken in ambulances and cars to area hospitals.
“They are being pulled out every minute,” he said.
Ghotki is about 600 km northeast of Karachi, in remote Sindh province.
A second railway official, Sajjad Ahmed, said the train in the station was the Quetta Express, which was bringing passengers from the eastern city of Lahore to the southwestern city of Quetta, when it developed a technical problem.
Technicians were working on the train when it was hit by the Karachi Express, a night-coach passenger train bringing people from Lahore to the southern port city of Karachi.
The impact pushed three carriages onto an adjacent track, and they in turn were hit by the oncoming Tezgam Express, which was bringing people from Karachi north to Rawalpindi, near the capital.
Pakistan’s railways are antiquated, and dozens of people have been killed in train accidents in recent years.
On March 5, five people were killed and 25 injured when a passenger train derailed in eastern Punjab province.
On September 20, 2003, a train ploughed into a packed bus in central Pakistan, killing at least 27 people and injuring six others.
Accidents are often blamed on faulty equipment or human error.
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so we pump billions of dollars into our military so that we can save our people lives from any attack from maha-india...and here 200 or so ppl die probably just cuz of some old and faulty equipment...wah jee wah..
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Is this the biggest railway disaster/accident in Pakistan?
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**150 killed, 1,000 injured in Pakistan train crash
**
Three passenger trains collided at a southern Pakistan station early Wednesday, killing more than 150 people and injuring more than 1,000 others, according to Pakistani officials.
Officials expect the death toll to rise to 300 following the horrible accident, as rescue workers are trying to pull out hundreds of passengers still trapped in derailed carriages.
Officials say that this is the deadliest train wreck in Pakistan’s history.
Witnesses said that the station yard was covered with twisted steel from at least 13 derailed cars, and body parts were strewn about as emergency crews had to cut through metal to reach some victims.
“It’s a painful scene. There are bodies scattered all over. People are crying, fathers are looking for children, husbands for their wives and brothers for their sisters,” one witness said.
“It is a very gruesome situation,” police chief Agha Mohammed Tahir told reporters.
“Rescue workers have started to pull the dead and injured out. There were many people inside and there are a lot of casualties.”
Survivors were awoken to the horror after being thrown from their seats.
Suraya, a 22-year-old woman, said “we were sleeping and we woke up to a huge bang”.
“I fell down to the floor. Then I heard the screams.”
Abdul Wahab Awan, general manager of Pakistan Railways, said that more than 100 people were killed and hundreds more were injured in the train crash.
Ruling out sabotage, Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema, the national head of the Crisis Management Center at the Interior Ministry, described the crash as “a pure accident.”
“We cannot give a figure for the death toll and a rescue operation is going on,” he said.
Abdul Aziz, a senior controller at Pakistan Railways described how the accident took place, saying that around 4 a.m., a train sitting in a station near the Sindh province city of Ghotki, 370 miles northeast of Karachi, in remote Sindh province, was hit in the rear by a second train, the Karachi Express. Then a third train slammed into cars derailed in the first crash.
“Our train was standing still when it was hit from the rear. Our car jumped and flipped on its side,” said Khuda Bakhsh Larak, 50, who was in the Quetta Express and suffered head injuries.
The driver of the Karachi Express, which was carrying passengers from the eastern city of Lahore to the southwestern city of Quetta, misread a signal, one official said.
“The driver of the Karachi Express thought the signal allowed him to pass and he rammed into the rear part of the Quetta Express,” said Junaid Qureshi, a senior railway official.
It was not known if the Karachi train driver survived the crash.
Railway traffic in the area has been halted by the crash and officials say it could take many hours to restore.
The injured were taken in ambulances and private car to hospitals in the region, and special trains were sent to the scene to take stranded survivors to their destinations.
In 1989, 400 people were killed in a train crash near Sangi, a town 35 miles from Ghotki.
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Thsi is awful.
**Over 100 killed in Pakistan crash **](BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan train disaster kills 132)
**A major train collision in southern Pakistan has left at least 120 dead, local police say. **
The dawn incident near the town of Ghotki in Sindh province involved three passenger express trains.
At least 13 train carriages have been derailed. “It is a very gruesome situation,” said local police official Aga Mohammed Tahir.
The general manager of Pakistan Railways said the crash was caused by a train conductor misreading a signal.
I was sleeping… I woke up at the noise of a huge bang and then there was [a] big jerk and smoke all over the place
Mohammad Amin, passenger
“It’s a painful scene. There are bodies scattered all over. People are crying, fathers are looking for children, husbands for their wives and brothers for their sisters,” an unnamed witness told the AFP news agency.
One express slammed into the back of a stationary train, and a third train ploughed into derailed coaches.
Carnage
Abdul Aziz, a senior controller at Pakistan Railways, told the Associated Press that the incident happened at about 0400 (2300 GMT Tuesday) on the border between the provinces of Sindh and Punjab, when most of the passengers were sleeping.
Officials said the Karachi Express ran into the rear of broken down Quetta Express at a station near Ghotki, about 600km (370 miles) north-east of the city of Karachi.
A third train travelling in the opposite direction - the Tezgam Express - then hit a number of derailed carriages, which were scattered over several tracks.
Abdul Wahab Awan, general manager of Pakistan Railways, said the conductor of the Karachi Express had failed to read a signal correctly.
“The crash occurred because of misreading of a signal by the driver of Karachi Express and it rammed the Quetta Express, which was not moving,” he told The Associated Press.
Mr Tahir was quoted as saying that rescuers began pulling out the dead and injured out of the trains.
“There were many people inside and there are lot of casualties,” the police official said.
He said body parts were strewn across the site amid piles of twisted steel and that rescuers had to cut through metal to get to the injured.
An injured passenger Mohammad Amin said he was sleeping when the accident occurred.
“I woke up at the noise of a huge bang and then there was [a] big jerk and smoke all over the place,” Mr Amin told Reuters.
“There was total darkness… I hit the floor and fainted.”
The BBC’s Zaffar Abbas in Karachi says this is one of the worst train accidents in recent years.
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Really sad :(
I think the signal system both in India and Pakistan are very much down -trodden.Even India is not spared off these kinds of mishaps.
Here is rediff news.......................
Pak trains collide, over 300 die
Zarar Khan in Karachi | July 13, 2005 09:34 IST
Last Updated: July 13, 2005 12:32 IST
Three passenger trains have collided early Wednesday in southern Pakistan derailing 13 cars and killing over 300 people and injuring hundreds more, officials have said.
Police officials said the death toll could be over 300, Pakistan's NNI news agency reported.
The accident occurred at about 4 am when a train sitting in a station near Ghotki, in southern Sindh province, was rear-ended by a second train, Abdul Aziz, a senior controller at Pakistan Railways, said.
Aziz said the collision caused several cars to derail and spill over onto another track, where they were struck by the third train, causing further derailment.
"It is a very gruesome situation," local police official Aga Mohammed Tahir told The Associated Press.
"Rescue workers have started to pull the dead and injured out. There were many people inside and there are a lot of casualties."
Tahir said that "dozens" of people had been killed or injured, but that no exact figures would be possible for some time.
He said at least 13 train cars derailed, and that the injured were being taken in ambulances and cars to area hospitals.
"They are being pulled out every minute," he said.
Ghotki is about 600 km northeast of Karachi, in remote Sindh province.
A second railway official, Sajjad Ahmed, said the train in the station was the Quetta Express, which was bringing passengers from the eastern city of Lahore to the southwestern city of Quetta, when it developed a technical problem.
Technicians were working on the train when it was hit by the Karachi Express, a night-coach passenger train bringing people from Lahore to the southern port city of Karachi.
The impact pushed three carriages onto an adjacent track, and they in turn were hit by the oncoming Tezgam Express, which was bringing people from Karachi north to Rawalpindi, near the capital.
Pakistan's railways are antiquated, and dozens of people have been killed in train accidents in recent years.
On March 5, five people were killed and 25 injured when a passenger train derailed in eastern Punjab province.
On September 20, 2003, a train ploughed into a packed bus in central Pakistan, killing at least 27 people and injuring six others.
Accidents are often blamed on faulty equipment or human error.
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not really..we have a long history of deadly train crahes in pakistan
1997 March 3, Punjab province, Pakistan: passenger train crashed due to failed brakes, killing 119 and injuring at least 80 people.
1957, Sept. 29, nr. Montgomery, West Pakistan: express train crashed into standing oil train; nearly 300 killed.
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very sad news...Geo reporter was saying that It is like qayamat here...people are crying, dead bodies and the piecies of bodies are all over the place..............he was reporting after 4 hours of the train crash......
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inna lillah wa inna ileyhi rajioon
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very sad news :( ....damn faulty pakistani systems....lagta hai pakistan main insaan ki zindagi ki koi keemat nahin rahi hai...roz log martay hain baychaaray :( merey allah tu kher kar.....pls give sabr to victims families....
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brought tears to my eyes. Bless the souls of the deceased and i hope others find the courage and strength to live on.
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There was one more in the 80’s near Sanghi station also in sindh
it was really a sad news all my prayers for the affected families.
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Inalillahe Wa Inailahay rajayooN.
Very sad news indeed.