Sukkur: Karachi Express death toll jumps to seven

SUKKUR: The death toll in the Karachi Express fire has jumped to seven after the rescue teams recovered five more burnt bodies, ARY News reported.

Karachi Express caught fire in Khairpur in the wee hours of Thursday night, resulting in the death of several people.

According to Pakistan Railways authorities, the train traveling from Karachi to Lahore suddenly caught fire midway when one of cabins started blazing near Tando Masti, Khairpur.

The rescue operation has been completed and the fire has been put out. The authorities initially claimed that two persons lost their lives in the incident, but the figure has now jumped to seven.

Meanwhile, a passenger named Ikram said his four children are missing after the fire incident.

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In one such deadly train fire incident, at least seventy-three people reportedly dead and forty others were injured when fire engulfed three bogies of Tezgam Express due to an alleged cylinder explosion at Liaquatpur in Rahim Yar Khan in 2019.

The train was on its way from Karachi to Rawalpindi when the unfortunate occurrence took place. A Pakistan Railways official confirmed that the fire was caused by the explosion in a gas cylinder. After the blast, the raging fire engulfed two other coaches as well.