KARACHI: Police on Friday registered a case against a train driver and his assistant on charges of manslaughter and rash driving as the collision between two trains on Thursday morning killed 22 people and injured 63 others, including women and children.

Quaidabad police registered an FIR (316/2016) against Bahauddin Zakaria train driver Mohammed Rafiq and his assistant Atif on a complaint of the official in charge of Fareed Express, Mohammed Husain, who was present in the latter at the time of the accident, said SHO Javed Sikandar.

The officer added that the case was registered under sections 320 (punishment for qatl-i-khata by rash or negligent driving), 322 (punishment for qatl-bis-sabab), 337 (Shajjah), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 101 of the Railways Act. He, however, said no one had been arrested.

Nineteen people, including six women and a child, were brought dead to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre after the collision between the two trains, said Dr Seemin Jamali, head of the emergency department of the JPMC. Besides, there were 66 injured, she added. Three more people died during treatment, taking the death toll to 22. Dr Jamali told Dawn on Friday that of the 63 injured persons, only 13, including four women and a child, were admitted for treatment and the others were discharged after first medical aid.

She said the condition of one injured person was critical and he had been admitted to the intensive care unit.

Published in Dawn, November 5th, 2016