LAHORE: Twenty-two people, including 20 Sikh pilgrims, a driver and his helper, were killed and nine others injured when a train rammed into a passenger coach at the railway track passing through Sucha Soda, a small town near Farooqabad in Sheikhupura district, about70km from here, on Friday afternoon. The tragic incident took place at a small unmanned level crossing / passage, just about 100 feet away from a manned level crossing at the track. “Twenty-two people, most of them Sikh Yatris and including eight women and a child, were killed while nine pilgrims, including two children, suffered injuries. The slightly injured children were...
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