Key Points
At least 15 people were killed when a train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, the country's railways minister said...
Rescue teams have reached on site and at least 15 passengers were killed and 45 injured," Khawaja Saad Rafique told reporters...
Ijaz Shah, a provincial railway official, told AFP that several passengers were killed and that a relief train has been dispatched to the site...
Images posted to local media show dozens of people at the site, with some smashing windows to help passengers clamber out of the twisted carriages and at least one coach overturned...
At least 75 passengers burnt 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...
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