20 passengers injured as blast hits train in East Pakistan
Xinhua, May 26, 2015 Adjust font size:
At least 20 people were injured when a bomb hit a passenger train in Pakistan's east Rajanpur district on Tuesday afternoon, local media reported.
Abb Takk TV said that the train which was enroute from the country's southern port city of Karachi to northwest Peshawar city was targeted by a remote controlled device.
Some unknown militants blew up the explosive materials, fixed at the railway track, as soon as the train passed by them in Umerkot area of Rajanpur, a district located in the country's east Punjab province.
Two compartments of the train derailed in the attack.
The injured passengers have been shifted to a nearby hospital where at least five of them were said to be in critical condition.
Police rushed to the site following the attack and cordoned off the area for investigations.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. Endi