Rail workers suspended after deadly Pakistan train crash
The Hindu
Six railway workers including track maintenance staff have been suspended after a train crash in southern Pakistan at the weekend killed 34 people
Six railway workers including track maintenance staff have been suspended after a train crash in southern Pakistan at the weekend killed 34 people, a government Minister said on August 9.
More than 1,000 passengers were aboard the Hazara Express when it came off the tracks Sunday in a flat, rural part of Sindh province near Nawabshah, around 250 kilometres (160 miles) by rail from the southern port city of Karachi.
“We have not forgiven negligence. We have suspended six people,” railways minister Khawaja Saad Rafique told a news conference in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday.
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“The final inquiry is yet to come but there was no sabotage.”
Rafique told parliament on Tuesday that two factors had contributed to the incident.
The first was that two jammed wheels behind the engine had been greased before the train set off, instead of the carriage being replaced.
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