At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured Monday when a packed Pakistani inter-city train plowed into another express that had derailed earlier, officials said.
An unknown number of people were still trapped in mangled wreckage near Daharki in northern Sindh province, a railway spokesman said, adding rescue workers had called urgently for specialist equipment so they could be extracted.
Mobile phone footage shown on television from the site revealed the wreckage, with several green Pakistan railway carriages lying on their side. The accident happened in a remote part of the province on a raised section of track surrounded by lush farmlands. The railway spokesman and senior Daharki police officer Umar Tufail said 30 people had been killed and dozens injured."Ordering comprehensive investigation into railway safety faultlines," his official Twitter account said.