Ten people were killed and around 45 injured when passengers travelling on roof of a train hit high-voltage wires near Shikarpur on Sunday night. They were going to attend a majlis in Rohri.
According to divisional transport officer Sukkur, Amir Ali the accident took place when the passengers travelling on the roof of Quetta Express hit high-voltage wires near Habib Kot Railway Station, Shikarpur and fell off the train. The deceased and injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Shikarpur.
UPP ADDED: Reports from Shikarpur indicate that some thirty persons have been sent to the Shikarpur Hospital and some serious cases to Larkana and Sukkur for immediate medical attention.
The District Nazim Shikarpur and nazims of various councils have reached the site of the accident.
Volunteers of the Imamia Students Federation along with volunteers from other NGOs have also reached the site for relief work. Federal Railways Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmed said that all relief measures have been taken at the site of the accident. Rashid said that according to information received so far some twelve to fifteen persons have died.
He said that an overhead high-tension line of Wapda had fallen over the roof of the bogies on which several persons were riding. He said that the Railways always do their best that passengers do not ride on the roof of passenger bogies but in the days when festivals or gatherings such as Muharram Majalis take place, the station masters are unable to stop the passengers from climbing on the roof of the coaches, generally such passengers are travelling without tickets, Shaikh Rashid said.
Senior railway officials form Sukkur and Karachi have been co-ordinating the relief efforts at the Quetta Express train now held up near Shikarpur Railways Stations, according to information available here from the Railways officials.
Special team from railway headquarters at Lahore has also been dispatched to the area.
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