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At least 30 passengers have been killed after an express train derailed in southern pakistan. A Police Officer supervising the Rescue Operation said more than a hundred people had been injured in the incident. The Hazara Express came off the rails near nawabshah in sindh province, as it travelled from karachi to abbottabad. Its not immediately clear what caused the derailment. These are the latest pictures from the scene, in a remote area. Emergency workers are battling to rescue passengers trapped in at least five overturned carriages, with more rescue teams deployed to the scene. An emergency has been declared in nearby hospitals including this one in nawabshah where casualties have been arriving. Our correspondent Tarhub Asghar is following developments from lah ....
Concern for the authorities is to move all those injured people to various hospitals and then they investigate what led to this derailment. but this also puts a highlight on pakistan s train infrastructure. it is a most popular mode of transport, middle class people, lower middle class and the poor people, they travel by train because they are cheaper and they go to all parts of the country. and that is why it is the most popular form of transport. and pakistan has about 7,700 kilometres of tracks and 80 million people travel every year. but what the experts are saying is that enough money is not being invested in terms of track maintenance signalling. and also lots of accidents happen in unmanned railway crossings when the vehicles try to cars orjeeps, when they try to cross the tracks at the time of the trains coming. that also leads to accidents and that is why they are asking for more investment. you know, we have been seeing ....