LAHORE, Sept 28: The Karakoram Express was the 63rd train derailed since Jan 1 this year, according to officials at the railways headquarters here.

Initial reports suggested lack of proper clipping of the rails with nuts and bolts caused widening of the track which resulted in derailment of two bogies of the prestigious passenger train near Kotri on Wednesday.

Officials told Dawn that 12 passengers, 13 mixed, one mixed goods and 37 goods trains derailed to date. It was the sixth train derailed since Aug 1 this year, they said.

The locomotive and five wagons of Peshawar-bound Goods In Transit to Afghanistan (GITA) train derailed on the main line near the Rohri railway station on Sept 3.

Four wagons of the 4201 goods train derailed near Feroza, some 20 kilometres from Khanpur, on Sept 14.

Three bogies of Khyber Mail derailed near Lahore Cantt on Aug 13, a goods train derailed near the Gadani crossing in Sukkur and nine wagons of the Parcel Express on Malir Bridge on Aug 21. —Zaheer Mahmood Siddiqui