ISLAMABAD: At least one person was injured when an explosion derailed three coaches of the Jaffar Express train in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, Pakistan’s state media reported on Monday.
The train, which was en route to Quetta from Peshawar, derailed in Sindh’s Shkarpur district after the explosion damaged part of the railway track, the APP news agency reported, citing Sukkur Divisional Superintendent of Railways Jamshaid Alam.
The incident forced authorities to suspend train operations on Monday evening.
“Teams from Sukkur were summoned to start repairing work after the incident,” the report read. “It may take up to further five hours to restore the track.”
This is the second incident involving Jaffar Express since it resumed operations in March, following a rare hijacking by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) separatist militants in March with 400 passengers aboard.
