At least three people were killed and three injured after a passenger train hit a vehicle at railway crossing in at at Hatar Phatak in Fateh Jang on Thursday evening.
According to Pakistan Railways sources, Multan-bound Mehr Express collided with the vehicle as the crossing was not closed for general traffic.
This is the second accident of such kind in less than 24 hours.
In the first incident, at least four people were killed and more than 100 injured when two trains collided in Multan area near Buch railway station.
The accident occurred near the city of Multan around 2:30am when the Karachi-bound “Awami Express” passenger train rammed into a goods train which had stopped after running over a man crossing the railway track.
“At least four people have been killed and scores others wounded,” local district administration official Nadir Chattha told reporters.
Local state-run rescue service spokesman Abdul Jabbar told AFP the number of injured exceeded 100.
TV footage showed rescue officials working around crumpled and overturned bogies in the darkness. Chatta said several trapped passengers had to be extracted from their carriages.
A three-day public holiday for the festival of Eid ul-Adha ended on Wednesday, with many returning from their family homes to the cities where they work. (PhotoNews /Agencies)
