18 killed in Pakistan train collision

By Aamir Latif

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 18 people were killed and more than 40 others injured in a collision between two passenger trains in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Thursday, police and health officials said.

A passenger train crashed into another stationary train on the outskirts of the commercial capital, causing three carriages to overturn.

Dr. Seemi Jamali, an official at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center, told Anadolu Agency 18 bodies were brought to her hospital and nearly a dozen injured were in critical condition.

The incident was the second of its kind in less than two months and senior railway official Nasir Nazeer told reporters an investigation had begun.