Fire on passenger train in southern Pakistan results in 7 fatalities

At least seven people were killed when a car on a moving passenger train caught fire overnight in southern Pakistan. Railways official Mohsin Sial said six people were killed in the blaze, while a woman died when she jumped from the window of the moving train. The cause of the blaze is unclear, but local media reported that flames roared through the train Wednesday night. In 2019, at least 74 passengers were killed and dozens were injured in a train fire triggered when a cooking gas stove exploded in the eastern Punjab province. A roadside bomb targeted police vehicles in Khuzdar, a district in the volatile southwestern Baluchistan province, killing a local police chief working for the working terrorism department. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion fell on separatist groups and militants.