Triple Train Crash Causes Rail Carnage

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Three trains collided in a deadly chain-reaction after a conductor misread a signal in southern Pakistan, killing at least 118 people and wounding hundreds more in the country's worst crash in more than a decade.

The accident left metal, glass and body parts strewn across a remote railway station near Ghotki. Rescuers frantically cut through twisted metal to reach survivors, as ambulances and buses streamed in to ferry the injured to nearby hospitals.

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Triple Train Crash Causes Rail Carnage

'It is a very gruesome situation,' said local police chief Agha Mohammed Tahir. 'Rescue workers have started to pull the dead and injured ou...

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