285 dead in Pakistan rail crash

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: January 5, 1990 | Copyright information

SUKKUR, Pakistan Grim soldiers cut into crumpled railroad cars with torches Thursday searching for survivors or more victims of a train wreck that has claimed at least 285 lives and ranks as the worst in this country's history.

State television showed rows of bodies wrapped in blankets near the wreckage of a crowded 16-car passenger train that was switched onto the wrong track Wednesday night and hit a standing freight train in a village station in southern Pakistan.

The lo...

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