This photo taken with mobile phone shows a burnt train in Sukkur, south Pakistan, April 27, 2023. Two people were killed and four others went missing after a passenger train caught fire in Pakistan's southern Sindh province in the wee hours of Thursday morning, the Pakistan Railways said in a statement. (Str/Xinhua)
ISLAMABAD, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and four others went missing after a passenger train caught fire in Pakistan's southern Sindh province in the wee hours of Thursday morning, the Pakistan Railways said in a statement.
The fire erupted in the business class bogey of the Karachi Express, which was heading towards Sindh's provincial capital Karachi from east Punjab province, at 12:30 a.m. local time and the driver immediately pulled it over near a village, the statement said.
One of the passengers, a 40-year-old woman, jumped off the train to escape the fire and received fatal wounds, while the other deceased has not been identified yet, the Pakistan Railways said.
Four people went missing after the blaze and they are being searched in the bogey.
It took firefighters 40 minutes to douse the fire, and the train resumed its journey at 6:45 a.m. after the removal of the affected bogey, the statement added.
An investigation into the incident has been launched, and a special team from Pakistan Railways' headquarters in Islamabad has left for the site to probe the cause of the accident, said the statement. ■
