{"id":23854,"date":"2026-10-13T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/passenger-train-derails-punjab-pakistan-killing-four\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:00:18","slug":"passenger-train-derails-punjab-pakistan-killing-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/passenger-train-derails-punjab-pakistan-killing-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger train derails in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab, killing four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger train derailed in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province on Tuesday morning, killing four people.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in the city of Shah Sharaq in Punjab province, a spokesperson for Pakistan Railways said. He said the train was travelling from Karachi to Peshawar when it left the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Train derailments have occurred repeatedly in Pakistan in recent years. The worn condition of railway lines, lack of long-term investment and outdated warning systems are cited as factors behind such incidents.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, 30 people were killed and more than 90 others injured after 10 carriages of a passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger train derailed in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province, killing four people and reviving concerns over rail safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}