Pakistan train crash blamed on sabotage
30/01/2006 - 07:49:53Pakistani investigators believe sabotage to a rail track caused part of a packed express train to crash into a ravine, killing at least three people and injuring more than 40.
The Islamabad Express, with up to 600 people on board, went partly off the tracks at around 7.30pm local time yesterday near the eastern village of Domeli. Several carriages toppled off the track and one plunged 100 yards to the bottom of a gorge.
Officials at the scene said the track had been damaged before the train passed on its run from Rawalpindi to Lahore.
“It was definitely sabotage,” said a senior security official, adding that plates which connected the rail lines to planks beneath had been removed.
A senior railway official said a preliminary investigation report suggested that it was sabotage, although he would not say who might have done it.
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