LAHORE, Oct 18: Another freight train carrying around 378 tons of relief supplies arrived here from India on Tuesday. Some 1,000 packets of fortified biscuits, polyester sheets, medicines and tents in nine BC (bogie-covered) wagons crossed Wagah at 10:45am, Pakistan Railway officials said.

A Pakistan Railways locomotive pulled the Indian stock from Atari to the Wagah where the train was checked by law-enforcement authorities.

Dr Ramesh Chandra of the Indian High Commission formally handed over the train to Punjab government’s protocol officer Aman Rasheed at the railway station from where it left for Havelian via Rawalpindi at around 8pm.

It was the second consignment of relief supplies from India through train. A freight train comprising four wagons of relief goods, especially tents and blankets, had crossed Wagah on Oct 15.