By DPA
Islamabad : At least 28 people were killed and 130 injured early Wednesday when a passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan, Dawn News TV channel reported.
The accident occurred at 2.25 a.m. (21.25 GMT Tuesday) when 15 wagons on a 17-carriage express train from Karachi bound for Lahore went off the rails, Dawn News said.
A rescue train was dispatched to the crash site, at the town of Sihala near Naushero Feroze, and local police and volunteers rushed survivors to nearby hospitals. Some passengers were reported still trapped inside the derailed train cars.