Vanenge makumi manomwe nevatatu vezvitima vakaurayiwa uye makumi mana vakakuvara apo chitofu chegesi chakaputika pabhodhi rakazara raRawalpindi Tezgam Express padyo naRahim Yar Khan muPakistan neChina mangwanani.
Vapfuuri vakasvetukira kurufu rwavo, vachiedza kunzvenga moto waipisa, uyo wakadya mota dzinoverengeka dzezvitima kumabvazuva kwePakistan.
Chitima chaive chakazara ichifamba kubva kuKarachi kuenda kuguta reRawalpindi kumabvazuva kwePunjab purovhinzi pakaputirwa humburumbira yegasi mukati.
Iyo cylinder yakanyoreswa neboka revapfuuri vairishandisa kubira mazai pane chitofu chegasi pakaitika kuputika uku. Mafuta ekubikisa akawedzera mafuta kumoto, uyo wakapararira nekukurumidza, uchipisa zvachose mota nhatu.
Vanodzima moto vakaendeswa kunzvimbo iyi, uye maherikoputa emauto akaendeswa nendege kunoendesa nendege kune vakakuvara.
Vanhu vanosvika makumi manomwe nevatanhatu vakaparara muchiitiko ichi. "Rufu rwakawanda rwakaitika kubva kuvanhu vaisvetuka kubva muchitima," Gurukota rezvezvitima, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad akaudza Geo News. Mitumbi yeavo vakasiyiwa mukati yaive yakarongedzwa kupfuura kuzivikanwa.
Prime Minister Imran Khan vakati "vakasuruvara zvikuru nedambudziko rakaipisisa," uye vakaraira kuferefetwa "nekukasira".
ZVOKUBVA MUNYAYA INO:
- The cylinder was booked by a group of passengers who were using it to boil eggs on a gas stove when the blast happened.
- Chitima chaive chakazara ichifamba kubva kuKarachi kuenda kuguta reRawalpindi kumabvazuva kwePunjab purovhinzi pakaputirwa humburumbira yegasi mukati.
- At least 73 train passengers were killed and 40 were injured when a gas stove exploded on board of packed Rawalpindi-bound Tezgam Express near Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan on Thursday morning.
