▶️ Flames engulf a passenger train in Pakistan in a deadly blaze that killed scores of people.
👉 Officials in Pakistan say at least 74 people have been killed and dozens more injured after fire engulfed a passenger train near Pakistan's Rahimyar Khan city in eastern Punjab province.
The train was traveling from the southern city of Karachi to Rawalpindi when the disaster struck. Television footage showed showed flames pouring out of the train's carriages, sending huge clouds of black smoke into the sky above. Authorities say many of the victims died when they jumped from the moving train to escape the inferno.
Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said the fire was sparked when two gas stoves used by passengers to cook breakfast exploded. Gas stoves are banned on Pakistan trains, but the rule is rarely enforced on the overcrowded trains.
At least 40 other passengers were injured. Many of the passengers were Muslim missionaries headed to a conference organized by the Tablighi-e-Jamaat movement. (VOA)
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