At least six passengers were killed and more than 100 others were injured Thursday when a passenger train collided with a freight train near the central Pakistani city of Multan, rescuers and railway officials said. The pre-dawn accident happened near the town of Sher Khan in Punjab province, 15 minutes after the freight train stopped after hitting a man on the track, railway official Saima Bashir said. Bashir said the freight train had stopped so its driver could remove the body of the man who had been crushed to death while crossing the railway track. The freight train was then hit from behind by the passenger train. "The driver of the passenger train did not see the red signal which went up after the man was crushed to death by the freight train," she said.

Source: CBC News September 15, 2016 07:47 UTC