Скачать или смотреть Update on investigation into train crash which killed at least 58

(20 Dec 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of train wreckage
2. Mid of security standing on top of train carriage
3. Mid of men working on new track
4. Various of workers
5. Train moving slowly on track
6. Mid of passengers inside train looking at wreckage
7. Wide of moving train
8. Workers and volunteers carrying last unidentified body into ambulance
9. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Abdul Satar, Head of Edhi Foundation:
"In the train incident probably around 120 people is injured, and approximately 60 is dead, but we received 45 bodies in Taluka hospital.
10. Ambulance leaving hospital
STORYLINE:
At least 58 people died and another 150 were injured when a train heading from Karachi to near Lahore was derailed early on Wednesday morning.
About 12 of the 16 train carriages came off the rails at around 2 am (2100gmt - Tuesday) near Mehrabpur, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Karachi.
The engine reportedly came to a halt about 1.5 kilometres (a mile) further up the line.
It was unclear what caused the accident, which left hundreds of terrified passengers trying to claw their way out of the mangled wreckage in total darkness.
Mohammed Khalid, a railway official who was travelling in one of the rear cars which stayed on the rails, said he suspected a problem with the track.
After the crash, a section of one rail had been torn loose.
Brigadier Nazhar Jamil, the army officer in charge of the relief operation, said an initial inspection of the track found no sign of sabotage.
He said excessive speed coupled with poor maintenance might have been to blame.
Army engineers used two cranes and cutting equipment to free the last survivors, including a girl aged about 3 with a bloodied left foot, from one of the badly damaged cars, many of which were thrown down an embankment into the soggy field.
Dozens of soldiers and police helped tend the injured and carry them away to waiting ambulances, as hundreds of people from the surrounding villages looked on.
Rescuers brought 58 bodies to three nearby hospitals, according to an official from the Edhi Foundation, Pakistan's largest privately run emergency service.
Abdul Satar, the Head of the Edhi Foundation said 45 bodies had been received at Taluka hospital.
Many of the passengers were heading home for the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Deadly accidents are a regular occurrence on Pakistan's colonial-era railway network.

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