At least 15 people were killed and dozens others injured when a train derailed in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, officials said.
Rescue teams were sent to the site where dozens of people had already been seen smashing glass to help passengers clamber out of the wreckage.
The country’s Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq said the train had apparently not been traveling at a fast pace and that an inquiry had been ordered into the cause of the accident.
The Hazara Express is a daily passenger train from Karachi in the south across most of the length of Pakistan to Havelian in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Train crashes are common on Pakistan’s poorly-maintained railways tracks, which have antiquated signaling systems and colonial-era communications.
Pakistan’s successive governments have spent years trying to secure funds to upgrade the rail network as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative for infrastructure projects.