A passenger train derailed in central Pakistan early on Tuesday (October 12, 2026), killing four people and injuring 30 others, police and a Pakistan Railways spokesman said.

The train was traveling from the southern port city of Karachi to the northwestern city of Peshawar when it derailed in Sher Shah city in Punjab province, railway spokesman Kaleem Akhtar said.

Rescuers recovered all four bodies and evacuated the injured from the train’s 14 cars, he said. The injured were taken to a hospital for treatment. Emergency responders and paramedics were dispatched to the scene, he said.

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed grief in separate statements and urged authorities to provide the best possible medical care to the injured.

In 2023, ten cars of a passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90 others.

At least 11 members of a family were killed and three others injured in a road accident in northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, rescue officials said on Friday (September 26, 2025).

The accident occurred in the Dera Ismail Khan district late on Thursday (September 25) when the brakes of the vehicle failed, causing it to plunge into a ravine. The vehicle was en route to Dera Ismail Khan from the Zhob district.

According to rescue officials, seven bodies were recovered from the site, including five women, a man, and a child. Whereas the three injured were given immediate first aid.

Officials further confirmed that all of the deceased belonged to the same family.