![]() The minister dismissed an initial report submitted by a six-member investigation team which stated that steel fish plates - which join sections of track together - had been replaced by wooden ones. The other factor was a flaw in the top plate of the rail track which exacerbated the problem. ![]() The first was that two jammed wheels behind the engine had been greased before the train set off, instead of the carriage being replaced. Rafique told parliament on Tuesday that two factors had contributed to the incident. “The final inquiry is yet to come but there was no sabotage.” We have suspended six people,” railways minister Khawaja Saad Rafique told a news conference in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday. ![]() More than 1,000 passengers were aboard the Hazara Express when it came off the tracks Sunday in a flat, rural part of Sindh province near Nawabshah, around 250 kilometers (160 miles) by rail from the southern port city of Karachi. ISLAMABAD: Six railway workers including track maintenance staff have been suspended after a train crash in southern Pakistan at the weekend killed 34 people, a government minister said Wednesday. ![]()
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