पाकिस्तान ट्रेन हादसे में मारे गए लोगों को सुपुर्द-ए-खाक किया जाना शुरू - पाक में हादसे में मारे गए लोगों को अतिंम संस्कार

पाकिस्तान में चलती ट्रेन में आग लगने के कारण कम से कम 74 लोगों की मौत हो गई थी. इनकी शव पंहुचने के बाद आज से इनका सुपुर्द-ए-खाक (अंतिम संस्कार) होना शुरू हो गया है.

शव यात्रा ( सौं. एफपी ट्वीटर)

Published : Nov 2, 2019, 9:03 AM IST

Updated : Nov 2, 2019, 7:18 PM IST

इस्लामाबाद : पाकिस्तान के पूर्वी पंजाब प्रांत में एक चलती ट्रेन में भीषण आग लगने से कम से कम 74 लोगों की मौत हो गई थी. मौत के बाद मृतकों के परिजन उन्हें सुपुर्द-ए-खाक करने के लिए मीरपुर खास में एकत्रित हुए है. मृतकों में से कई एक ही शहर के रहने वाले हैं.

घटनास्थल से जैसे ही एंबुलेंस के जरिए पहला शव यहां पहुंचा शोक में डूबे परिजनों की यहां सरकारी इमारत में भीड़ जुट गई. सुबह की प्रार्थना के बाद पहले जनाजे में सौ से ज्यादा लोग शामिल हुए. यह जनाजा कार मकेनिक मोहम्मद सलीम का था.

शोकाकुल परिजन यहां बिस्मिल्लाह मस्जिद में एकत्र हुए और सुबह की नमाज अदा की. वहां से एक दिन पहले कम से कम 42 श्रद्धालु लाहौर के पास एक धार्मिक त्यौहार में शामिल होने के लिये ट्रेन में सवार हुए थे.

ये भी पढ़ें : कराची-रावलपिंडी एक्सप्रेस में आग लगने से 74 लोगों की मौत

शहर के उपायुक्त अताउल्ला शाह ने बताया कि मृतकों में इस शहर के आठ लोगों के शामिल होने की अभी तक पुष्टि हुई है जबकि यहां के घायल यात्रियों की संख्या 24 है.
उन्होंने बताया कि कम से कम अन्य 40 लोग अब भी लापता बताए जा रहे हैं.

अधिकारियों के मुताबिक ट्रेन में आग उस वक्त लगी, जब कुछ यात्री सुबह का नाश्ता बना रहे थे और दो गैस सिलिंडरों में विस्फोट हो गया. हादसा 31 अक्टूबर को हुआ था.

उन्होंने बताया कि तेजगाम एक्सप्रेस कराची से रावलपिंडी जा रही थी तभी सुबह लाहौर से करीब 400 किलोमीटर दूर रहीम यार खान जिले के समीप लियाकतपुर में यह हादसा हुआ जिसमें तीन डिब्बे बुरी तरह से जल गए. इनमें महिलाओं और बच्चों समेत 200 यात्री सवार थे.

ये भी पढ़ें : कराची-रावलपिंडी एक्सप्रेस में आग लगने से 74 लोगों की मौत

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Funerals begin as town mourns victims of Pakistan train fire
Mirpurkhas (Pakistan), Nov 1 (AFP) Distraught relatives gathered Friday for the first funerals of some of the 74 people killed when fire ripped through a crowded train in Pakistan, with many of the victims residents of a single town.
Sobbing family members crowded a government building in Mirpurkhas overnight as the first bodies covered in white cloth began arriving by ambulance from the scene of the disaster.
After morning prayers, with women watching from nearby rooftops, more than a hundred men attended the first funeral -- of a car mechanic named Mohammad Saleem, who was in his late 40s.
It was held at the Bismillah Mosque, from which at least 42 pilgrims had left to board the train one day earlier, bound for a religious festival near Lahore.
Officials say as some of the train's passengers cooked breakfast around dawn Thursday, two of their gas cylinders exploded, sending flames racing through three carriages as the train passed near Rahim Yar Khan, in Punjab province.
At least 74 people died, some after jumping through windows on the still-moving train to escape the blaze.
Rescue officials found bodies and some injured passengers along a two-kilometre stretch of track, Dawn newspaper reported.
The train was a daily express service that runs between the southern port city of Karachi and Rawalpindi, adjacent to Islamabad.
Trains on that route can reportedly hit speeds of up to 110 kilometres (68 miles) per hour. Local media said that the speed may have helped fan the flames.
Journalists were allowed inside the interior of the carriages early Friday. The fire appeared to have burned them entirely, with virtually no space visible that was not blackened and charred.
One of them -- Wagon No.12 -- was carrying mainly people from Mirpurkhas, the town's deputy commissioner, Attaullah Shah, told AFP.
"There was never such a tragic incident to happen to Mirpurkhas," he said.
Eight of the bodies had been confirmed as being residents of the town so far, he said.
Twenty-four Mirpurkhas residents were among the injured.
But at least another 40 are still missing, he said.
Officials in Rahim Yar Khan have said many of the bodies are charred beyond recognition and will have to be identified through DNA testing -- a process that could take up to one month.
Shah said the government was arranging to send families of the missing from Mirpurkhas to the hospital in Rahim Yar Khan where the bodies have been taken.
Mirpurkhas, a town of some half a million people surrounded by farms and mango orchards, was largely shut down Friday as businesses closed in mourning.
"These were such people that we can not ever forget them," Mohammad Anwar, the 57-year-old headmaster of a government school, told AFP at the Bismillah Mosque.
He said that among the missing was his nephew, as well as the mosque's imam. Most of those who left from the mosque had known one another or lived nearby.
Yawar Hussain came to the deputy commissioner's office overnight in hopes of finding his brother Mohsin, 20.
Clutching a photograph of his brother wearing a starched beige shalwar kameez and sunglasses, the 23-year-old described rushing home after hearing of the accident.
"I consoled my father, and my mother and sisters were crying," he said.
Train accidents are common in Pakistan, where the railways have seen decades of decline due to corruption, mismanagement and lack of investment.
Gas cylinders are supposedly banned on trains. Pakistan's railways minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said Thursday that it had been a "mistake" to allow the cylinders on board, and Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered an inquiry.
Some witnesses told local media the fire had not been started by the cylinders at all, but by some kind of fault on the train.
The train had been diverted Thursday to carry pilgrims to the annual Tablighi Ijtema, one of Pakistan's biggest religious gatherings, which sees up to 400,000 people descend on a tented village outside Lahore for several days to sleep, pray and eat together. (AFP)
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