SUKKUR: A minitruck heavily laden with sugar cane was ripped into pieces along with its ill-fated driver by the Green Line Train when he drove the vehicle through barrier and onto the rail tracks at a railway crossing in Muhammadpur, Ghotki district, early on Friday morning.

The Pakistan Railways officials said the mini-truck broke through the barriers at the railway crossing probably due to thick fog and could not see the train which was going to Punjab.

The truck driver, Nooral Tanwari, died on the spot, said the officials, adding the locomotive was also damaged due to the collision. They sent for another locomotive and managed to move the Green Line towards its destination while the dead body was shifted to taluka hospital, they said.

Published in Dawn, December 9th, 2023

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