As many as 129 passengers were killed and 965 injured in Railways accidents during the last ten years.
“60 percent railway accidents occurred due to unmanned level crossings and unauthorized railways crossings,” official sources in the Ministry of Railways told APP on Monday.
The other reason of the accidents included derailments of goods trains, yard deficiencies, operation failures and over shootings, the sources said.
They said that the highest death toll was recorded during the last ten years in 2007 as 49 passengers died and 320 injured in that year.
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In order to ensure the safety of trains operations, Railways had conducted a joint venture survey for the up-gradations of existing unmanned level crossing in collaboration with Provincial and Local District Governments, they added.
They said that as present 52 million passengers travel with Pakistan Railways in one year and 1,42,465 passengers daily across the country.
“Passengers safety, road users safety, quantitative reduction in accidents, improving assets reliability and prompt rescue was the prime objective of Pakistan Railways,” they added. (APP)
