Local residents and ambulances are seen next to wagons after a passenger train derailed in Nawabshah, Sindh province, southern Pakistan, August 6, 2023. AFP photo
A passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 50 others, local TV channel Geo reported.
About 10 carriages of a passenger train derailed near a town in the southern province of Sindh, about 275 km (171 miles) from the country’s largest city, Karachi.
Accidents on Pakistan’s decaying rail system are common, and successive governments have been trying for years to secure funds to upgrade the rail network under China’s Belt and Road Initiative for infrastructure.
