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Three passenger trains collide in Pakistan
Three passenger trains collided in southern Pakistan early Wednesday, derailing several cars and raising fears of "many casualties," a senior railway official said. The crash occurred at about 4 a.m. when a train sitting in a station near Ghotki, in southern Sindh province, was rear-ended by a second train, said Abdul Aziz, a senior controller at Pakistan Railways. The collision caused several cars to derail onto another track. He said a third train traveling on that track slammed into the cars. "We fear that there could be many casualties," Aziz said. It wasn't immediately clear how fast the trains were going when the accident occurred. Ghotki is about 350 miles northeast of Karachi, in remote Sindh province. Aziz said rescue teams were en route. A second railway official, Sajjad Ahmed, said the train in the station was the Quetta Express, which was bringing passengers from the eastern city of Lahore to the southwestern city of Quetta, when it developed a technical problem. Technicians were working on the train when it was hit by the Karachi Express, a night-coach passenger train bringing people from Lahore to the southern port city of Karachi. The third train involved was the Tezgam Express, which was bringing people from Karachi north to Rawalpindi, near the capital.
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