SUKKUR: Twenty-three bogies of a freight train derailed on its way fromPunjab in the Dabar area of Sukkur on Saturday.
Divisional Superintendent Railways told Geo News that rescue teams havebeen called to the incident site. The traffic will be resumed in four tofive hours, he added.link>link>
Pakistan witnessed a 188% decrease in train accidents in 2017 compared tothe previous year, a senior official of Pakistan Railways told news agencyAPP.
“In 2017, as many as 50 train accidents occurred across the country ascompared to 144 accidents in 2016,” he said.