KARACHI: At least 30 people were killed and 80 injured as 8 bogies of a local train named: Hazara Express derailed Sunday near Sahara Railway Station in Sindh’s Nawabshah district, 275 kilometres away from Karachi, officials said. 

According to Geo News, Commissioner Benazirabad division Abbas Baloch said in a statement that at least 30 died in the incident while passengers are still stranded in a bogie.

He said a relief train is also about to arrive and emergency has been imposed in hospitals of the district.

Benazirabad Deputy Inspector General of Police Younis Chandio said that nine out of 10 wrecked bogies had been cleared, with injured and deceased being pulled out.

World Asia reported: “This is quite a big accident,” railway minister Khawaja Saad Rafique told reporters.

“There can be two reasons: first that it was a mechanical fault, or the fault was created – it might be a sabotage. We will investigate it.”

There were chaotic scenes at the Nawabshah Trauma Centre as ambulances and private cars ferried the injured for treatment.

One man leapt from the back of an ambulance clutching a child, his clothes soaked in blood, while a woman moaned in pain as she was carried in on a stretcher.

“We don’t know what happened, we were just sitting inside,” said one dazed woman.

Business Recorder reported: Saad Rafique said that an act of sabotage could be among the reasons for the derailment of multiple Hazara Express coaches, which killed more than a dozen people.

“There could be two possible reasons for the accident. Either it is a mechanical fault in the line or a fault was developed. It could be an act of sabotage or mechanical fault,” he told reporters at a press conference in Lahore.

He, however, said the federal government railways inspector would decide the reason for the accident.

“The Hazara Express was travelling from Karachi to Abbottabad, eight coaches have derailed,” Mohsin Syal, a railway official, told local media.

Ijaz Shah, a provincial railway official, told AFP that several passengers were killed and that a relief train has been dispatched to the site.

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