Pakistan's worst train accident

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Hundreds killed and injured in Pakistan triple train crash

Three trains collided in a deadly chain-reaction after a conductor misread a signal in southern Pakistan early Wednesday, killing at least 107 people and injuring hundreds more in the country’s worst crash in more than a decade.

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

The national crisis manager at the Interior Ministry, Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, ruled out sabotage, saying the crash was "a pure accident." He declined to give a death toll, saying only that "a lot of people have died."

"Rescue workers have started to pull the dead and injured out. There were many people inside and there are a lot of casualties," the local police chief, Agha Mohammed Tahir, told the Associated Press

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