Mourning in Mirpurkhas.

Byline: Afaq Ahmed

MIRPURKHAS -- Traders shut down their shops here to mourn the deaths of dozens of passengers of the city in Tezgam train accident near Liaquatpur railway station in Punjab in the wee hours of Thursday.

Reports say that hundreds of people from the city boarded Tezgam Express a day ago to attend the three-day religious congregation at Raiwind near Lahore. However, when their train reached near Liaquatpur railway station, it caught fire, resulting in the deaths of scores of people and injuries to several others.

As soon as the news of the accident spread, tents were erected outside the houses of victims in different areas of the city where hundreds of people gathered to express their grief and sorrow over the incident.

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