HYDERABAD: Three people were killed and several others sustained critical injuries in a train accident that occurred near Hyderabad on Thursday evening.
According to rescue sources, the Jinnah Express carrying passengers was going to Lahore from Karachi when it collided with a freight train coming on the same track. As a result, three persons died on the spot while the injured were taken to nearby hospital.
The engine of the train caught fire soon after the collision, the rescue sources added.
The police and local teams were engaged in shifting the critically injured and dead bodies to hospitals.
