At least 14 people, including two children, were killed on Saturday when a train collided with a packed motorcycle rickshaw in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, officials said.
The passenger train travelling from the country’s financial hub Karachi to Punjab capital Lahore crushed the rickshaw on a road crossing which had no barrier.
“The accident occurred in Khanpur town of district Sheikhupura, around 40 kilometres northwest of Lahore,” Salim Niazi, a local police official, told AFP.
Officials said at least two children were among the dead.
“Twelve people died on the spot. Four people with critical injuries were taken to hospital, of whom two expired,” Muhammad Asim, a senior doctor at the local hospital, told AFP.
“Two of them were children under 12 years old,” he said adding that many bodies were mutilated and unable to be identified.