At least 70 people have been killed after gas cooking stoves exploded and set fire to a crowded train in Pakistan. More than 30 people were wounded, some critically, in the blaze which started when two gas stoves being used by poorer passengers to cook breakfast on Thursday morning blew up. Mr Ahmed said that poor passengers often bring their own small gas stoves on the trains to cook their meals, in violation of train safety rules. The burning carriages eventually came to a stop near Rahim Yar Khan, around halfway along the train's route. When the morgue at Rahim Yar Khan District hospital filled up, medics said bodies had to be sent to Multan District hospital, some three hours away.

Source: Daily Mail October 31, 2019 07:15 UTC