Eight dead as train crashes into rickshaw in Kandhkot

KANDHKOT: At least eight people, including three children and two women, were killed when a train rammed into a rickshaw in Kandhkot district in northern Sindh on Tuesday, ARY News reported.

According to details, 14 people also got injured in the accident that occurred at a railway crossing near Tangwani.

The local residents on self-help basis began rescue operation to shift the deceased and injured persons to a nearby hospital as no rescue team, nor any ambulance has reached the site yet.

The identities of the deceased and injured could not be ascertained immediately.

It is pertinent to mention here that at least nine people, including six children, were killed when a rickshaw had collided with a train in Lodhran last year.