Blast derails four Jaffar Express bogies; no casualties reported

Quetta: Four bogies of the Quetta-bound Jaffar Express train coming from Peshawar were derailed in a blast on the railway track linking Sindh to Balochistan on Monday night.

Railway officials in Sultankot confirmed that the blast occurred on the railway track between Sultankot and Jacobabad in Sindh.

“Four bogies have derailed after a blast that damaged the track,” a senior official of the Pakistan Railway said, adding no deaths or injuries were reported in the blast.

The railway officials added that repair on the track had begun after the area was cleared. They said a relief train had also reached the site to resume railway traffic on the main line.