Pak Business Express narrowly escapes railway track bomb blast in Hyderabad

The train was a few hundred metres away from the site when the explosion occurred.

HYDERABAD: A bomb planted near a railway track near Hussainabad in Hyderabad destroyed a portion of it just as the Pak-Business Express was about to cross the area on its way from Karachi to Lahore, Express News reported on Tuesday.

Express News correspondent Abdullah Sheikh reported that police personnel and the Bomb Disposal Squad have reached the area to gather evidence for investigations.

Authorities say it was a locally manufactured bomb, and though more details for this particular incident are yet to be learnt, previous blasts of the like have mostly been perpetrated by nationalist parties on the occasion of a strike or a protest against something.

The police went on to reveal that pamphlets of the Sindhu Desh Liberation Army were found at the site, a party often named in bomb attacks on railway tracks, ATMs and banks across Sindh.

Abdullah Sheikh said that the Business Express was just a few hundred metres away from the site when the blast occurred. The train was duly stopped and remained unaffected by the explosion.