Gunmen opened fire with assault rifles on a passenger train in south-western Pakistan, sparking a gun battle with security forces, a railway official said. There were no immediate reports of injury.

Railway workers were clearing debris and repairing damaged train tracks in southern Pakistan today, a day after the country’s worst rail crash in more than a decade left at least 133 people dead and hundreds injured.

THREE trains crashed after a train driver misread a signal in southern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 128 people and injuring hundreds more.

Three trains collided in a deadly chain-reaction after a conductor misread a signal in southern Pakistan, killing at least 107 people and wounding hundreds more in the country’s worst crash in more than a decade.

A passenger train derailed in southwestern Pakistan today, killing 12 people and injuring 70 others, officials said.