Passengers sit with their belongings next to derailed coaches of the passenger train Rehman Baba Express on the outskirts of Multan on October 13, 2026. (Photo by Shahid Saeed MIRZA / AFP)
Multan, Pakistan: At least four people were killed and over a dozen others injured in a train derailment Tuesday near Multan in the south of Pakistan's Punjab province, emergency services and a rescue worker told AFP.
Farooq Ahmed, a spokesman for Punjab's emergency services department, said four people had been killed and at least 17 injured while the cause of the incident remained unknown.
Ahmed added 11 ambulances and 30 rescue workers had been dispatched to the scene after the accident was called in at 5:21 am (0021 GMT).
A rescue worker at the derailment site confirmed at least four people were killed in the incident giving a higher figure of 25 people injured.
An AFP journalist saw the body of one person who had perished in the accident inside a train carriage.
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have expressed their concerns over the train's derailing in Punjab.
Zardari ordered the authorities to "conduct transparent investigations to determine the cause of the accident".
