LAHORE, July 13: The Railway authorities have issued a list of 21 dead passengers who have been identified. They were victims of the Ghotki train disaster. They are: (1) Shumalla d/o Mehrban Khan Gujjar of Rawalpindi (2) Phool Pari d/o Allan Bux Khokhar of Ghotki (3) Arif Shah s/o Majeed Shah, a railway employee (4) Dilbar s/o Rustam Khan, of Railway Colony, Quetta (5) Najma Bibi w/o M. Ibrahim, 13-B Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Karachi (6) Abdul Rauf of Mian Chanu (7) Waris Masih of Karachi (8) Zaheen Khan of Karachi (9) Irshad Ahmad s/o Murtaza Shaikh, of Chak No 58/4, district Sahiwal (10) Niaz Ahmed s/o Phote Khan, Chak No 58/5 Sahiwal (11) Ratan Chand, Jacobabad (12) Zulfiqar Ali, a PAF employee of Gujranwala (13) Habib Shah s/o Noor Muhammad Shah of Bahawalpur (14) Naseem Bibi w/o Shaukat Ali, Wazirabad (15) Kawal w/o Rizwan, Karachi (16) Muneer Ahmed s/o Sono Kaladi, Pointsman, Sarhad (17) Cheetan Dass of Mehrabpur, district Nausheroferoz (18) Munawar Hussain (19) Ghulam Muhammad, driver 16 DN Khanewal HQ (20) Noor Hussain F/Man 16 DN KWL HQ (21) Muhammad Lateef s/o Muhammad Nazir of Kot Radha Kishan.

LIST OF INJURED: The list of injured issued by the Railway authorities is as follows:

Rustam, aged 40, district Kasur, tehsil Pattoki, deeply injured. Shifted to GHK hospital; Qaisar Abbas, 50, multiple injuries. Discharged; Fayyaz, 25, Hyderabad, arm broken. Referred to GHK; Fazal Hussain, 40, multiple injuries. Discharged after treatment; Muhammad Anwar, 50, Shikarpur, discharged after treatment; Sardar Khan, 50, s/o Buggo Khan, Azad Kashmir, discharged; Khalid Ahmad, 20, of Mumtazabad, Multan, discharged; Raja Ahmed, of Mumtazabad, Multan, discharged; Muhammad Din Bhatti s/o Eidoo Bhatti, Abbaspur, Azad Kashmir. Admitted to Sarhad hospital; Syed Ghulam s/o Baggoo, Mahansera (ASI) I.B. Incharge, Quetta, hospitalized; Arshad, 25, s/o Zahir Hussain, Bahawalpur, hospitalized; Razia Begum w/o Bashir, village Chawinds, hospitalized; Hawaldar Shabbir Ahmad s/o Muhammad Khan Awan, Khushab, shifted to GHK hospital; Nazir s/o Abdul Razzak, Jhang, shifted to GHK hospital; Khuram s/o Shoukat, Wazirabad; Khalid Khan Soldier, tehsil Abbottabad, village Sakki Kalam (Punjab), shifted to CMH/Panu Aqil; Muhammad Siddique, Abbottabad, CMH/Panu Aqil; Muhammad Tufail (Quetta), Abdul Qadir (Multan), Ziauddin (TT Singh), Zaheer Ahmed (Mian Channu), Munir Ahmed (Sukkur), Iqbal Baloch s/o Muhammad Khan, Kamran s/o Fazal (0300-55241244), Mrs Hameeda Tubussum w/o Wasim Akhtar, Lady doctor Mumtaz w/o Dr Jamil Mahar, Zubair s/o Dr Jamil Ahmed, Kamal Din (Quetta), Ajmer Khan s/o Kamal Din, baby Shabina d/o Kamal Din, baby Aneela d/o Kamal Din, Mrs Sakeena w/o Kamal Din, Mrs Asia Javed (Quetta), Mir Shahid Qureshi (Karachi), Mahar Din (Karachi), Ms Shazia (Haripur), Mrs Shabina Moosa (Bahawalpur), Mrs Shahnaz Tahir (Mandi Bahauddin), Mrs Namar Rais (Karachi), Farman Rizwan (Karachi/Sukkur), Zakariya s/o Rizwan, Muhammad Ibrahim (Dera Ghazi Khan), Muhammad Ali (DG Khan), Qasid Pathan (Mianwali), Iqbal Imam (Rahim Yar Khan), Nadir Khan (Quetta), Syed Channar (Sahiwal), Javed Bashir (Azad Kashmir), Mrs Zahida, Syed Tufail Khan (Chicha Watni) and Muhammad Shahbaz (Farooqabad).

The injured admitted to taluka hospital Ghotki are:

Khalid Khan, soldier, Abbottabad, CMH Punnu Aaqil, Muhammad Siddique (Abbottabad), Muhammad Saeed (Abbottabad), Tufail Shah (Chicha Watni), Mrs Kunwar Rizwan (Karachi), Mrs Surayya Fatima (Karachi), Muhammad Younus (Bahawalpur), Riaz Ahmed (Bahawalpur), Kamran (Karachi), Arslan (Karachi), Ahsan Ahmed (Karachi), Najeebullah (Karak), Zulfikar Ali (Karachi), Ibrar Javed (Karachi), Aslam Khokhar and Rizwan Qayyum (Karachi).

Those admitted to the Public Health Unit Sarhad are:

Rustam (Pattoki), Qamar Abbas, Fayyaz (Hyderabad), Fazal (Attock), Muhammad Anwar (Shikarpur), Sardar Khan (AJK), Khalid Ahmed (Multan), Raja Ahmed (Multan), Muhammad Din Bhatti (AJK), Syed Ghulam Baggoo (Quetta), Arshad (Bahawalpur) and Razia Begum (Chawinda).

The injured admitted to the taluka hospital Ghotki are:

Havaldar Shabbir Ahmed Awan (Khushab), Nazir Razzaq (Jhang) and Khurram Shaukat (Wazirabad). —APP The Pakistan Railways have posted the list of the dead and injured passengers on its website, www.pakrail.com.

The list of passengers travelling by all the three trains — Quetta Express, Karachi Express (Night Coach) and Tezgam Express — has also been posted on the website.

The Railway authorities in Sukkur have asked relatives of the deceased to reach Ghotki immediately for identification of 51 unidentified bodies. —-APP

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