RAWALPINDI – Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said that trains’ collision at Sadiqabad occurred due to human negligence and inquiry report into the incident would be finalized today (Friday), the Radio Pakistan reported.
Talking to a private news channel, the minister said in the light of the inquiry report, the responsible would be punished.
The death toll in Akbar Express tragedy near Sadiqabad on Thursday has risen to seventeen.
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Another 79 got injured as the passenger train collided with a freight train at Walhar in Rahim Yar Khan on Thursday morning.
The incident occurred at the Walhar Railway Station in Sadiqabad Tehsil of Punjab province when Quetta to Lahore Akbar Express collided with a stationary freight train resulting in the causalities. Three to four bogies of the passenger train derailed while the engine of the passenger train was completely destroyed.
The passenger train went on the wrong track instead of running on the mainline and rammed into the freight train was standing on the loop line. The injured include nine women and 11 children.
Sheikh Rasheed announced that one point five million rupees would be given as compensation for each deceased, five hundred thousand rupees each to critically injured and two hundred thousand rupees each those receiving minor injuries.
