Death toll in Pakistan train crash rises to 133

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.

The chain-reaction accident yesterday was blamed on human error after the driver of one of the trains misinterpreted a signal, pulled into a station and slammed into another train. The pre-dawn collision slung carriages onto a neighbouring track where they were smashed by a third train.