Around 20 dead, 80 injured after passenger train derails in Pakistan

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More people are feared trapped in the derailed coaches...

Nearly 20 people were killed and another 80 injured in Pakistan after a total of ten train coaches of Rawalpindi-bound Hazara Express derailed near a station located 275 kilometres from Karachi, according to local news channel Geo News..

The accident occurred in Pakistan's Sindh province.s)..

"Due to the accident, the traffic on the up track is suspended," railways divisional superintendent Sukkur Mahmoodur Rahman was quoted as saying by Geo News..

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