QUETTA: At least seven people were injured after a blast targeted the Quetta-bound Jaffar Express in the Shikarpur district of Pakistan's Sindh on Tuesday, local media reported, citing officials.
Shikarpur Deputy Commissioner Shakeel Abro said that a blast took place on the train tracks at 8:15 a.m. (local time), Pakistan's leading daily Dawn reported. According to him, the blast happened at a distance of one kilometre from the Sultan Kot railway station.
Abro said that seven people were injured in the incident. He said that among those, four persons were taken to the Combined Military Hospital, while the other three had been taken to the Civil Hospital in Shikarpur.
He further said that the Jaffar Express train was heading to Quetta through Jacobabad.
Sukkur Divisional Transport Officer (DTO) Mohsin Ali Sial said that passengers were being taken to nearby stations so that the repair work of the train could begin.