Official: Death Toll Rises to 65 in Pakistan Train Collision

Official: Death Toll Rises to 65 in Pakistan Train Collision
Soldiers arrive to conduct rescue operation to clear the track at the site of a train collision in the Ghotki district, southern Pakistan, on June 8, 2021. Fareed Khan/AP Photo
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GHOTKI, Pakistan—The death toll from a horrific collision of two trains in southern Pakistan rose to 65 on Tuesday after rescuers pulled 15 more bodies from crumpled cars a day after the crash, government officials said.

The collision took place on a dilapidated railway track in Ghotki, a district in Sindh province, when an express train barreled into another that had derailed minutes earlier before dawn Monday.