(Adnkronos) – At least four people have died and over a dozen have been injured in a train derailment near Multan, in the south of Pakistan’s Punjab province. Emergency services reported this to AFP, while the causes of the incident remain unknown. A rescuer who intervened at the scene of the derailment confirmed that at least four people died in the incident, while the number of injured could be higher, up to 25.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have expressed concern over the train derailment in Punjab. Zardari has ordered authorities to “conduct transparent investigations to determine the causes of the incident”.
