A train derails in southern Pakistan, killing at least 30 people.

Numerous Hazara Express trains derailed in Nawabshah, Sindh province, inflicting dozens of injuries.


A railway derailed in southern Pakistan, resulting in at least 30 fatalities and several injuries.

On Sunday, a Hazara Express train carrying passengers derailed near the Sahara train station in Nawabshah, Sindh.

Khawaja Saad Rafique, the minister of railways, told reporters, "This is quite a big accident." Rafique claimed that the train derailed on a section of track where no recorded defects were present with at least 1,000 passengers on board.

Abid Baloch, a senior police official, reported that 30 bodies had been found and that more than 60 people had been hurt, some of them seriously. He warned that as rescue efforts go on, the death toll can increase.


Eight coaches of the Hazara Express, which was traveling from Karachi to Abbottabad, derailed at Nawabshah, around 275 kilometers (170 miles) from Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, according to railway official Mohsin Syal, who spoke to HUM News channel earlier.

Images shared by the local media show a large crowd at the scene, some breaking windows to assist passengers in exiting the overturned coaches and bent carriages.

As ambulances and private automobiles transported the injured to the Nawabshah Trauma Center for treatment, there were chaotic scenes.

While a woman screamed in agony as she was being taken in on a stretcher, one man leaped from the back of an ambulance carrying a child, his clothes covered in blood.

One confused woman added, "We don't know what happened; we were just sitting inside."


Accidents and derailments occur frequently on Pakistan’s antiquated railway system. In June 2021, two trains collided near Daharki in Sindh, killing at least 65 people and injuring about 150 others. In that accident, an express derailed onto the opposite track, and a second passenger train crashed into the wreckage roughly a minute later. At least 75 passengers burned to death in a fire aboard the Tezgam express train in October 2019, while a two-train collision at Ghotki killed more than 100 people in 2005.