HYDERABAD, Dec 29: Different teams have been formed by the railway authorities of Karachi division on Saturday to assess losses to railway’s properties including its stations, tracks, bogies and signals.

The teams are likely to visit entire Karachi division as soon as a normalcy returned. The train service between Karachi to up-country remained suspended on third consecutive day.

Official railway sources said that exact estimate of losses could only be estimated when the report of these committees are submitted. He feared the damages are seemed to be huge.

It was learnt that around 26 railway stations had been torched or vandalised in the ongoing spate of violence that began on Thursday following the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto after she addressed her party’s election rally in Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi.

“The teams would start visit on priority basis but it looks like an uphill task given the present law and order situation,” said the source.

He maintained that the teams have to survey all the tracks and every railway station. They would examine the signal system and buildings for correct assessment of losses. Authorities would try to resume train service on experimental basis and if things remained in order than there would be full-fledged resumption of passenger and freight services.—BoC