ISLAMABAD, Pakistan– Two express trains collided in southern Pakistan on Monday morning, killing at least 32 passengers and injuring 80 others, officials stated, the most recent in a series of train mishaps that have raised severe questions about the safety of rail travel in the country.Most of the guests were asleep when the Millat Express, a guest train plying the southern port city of Karachi to Sargodha in Punjab Province, hindered and fell throughout the track. Within minutes, another passenger train, the Sir Syed Express, which was en path to Karachi from Lahore in eastern Pakistan, crashed into the very first trains fallen carriages, leaving a mangled wreck, local news outlets reported.The accident occurred in between railway stations in Daharki and Raiti in the southern Sindh Province, said Nazia Jabeen, a spokeswoman for Pakistan Railways.A rescue operation was underway, Ms. Jabeen said. Numerous of the hurt were admitted to healthcare facilities in the Rohri, Pannu Aqil and Sukkur districts, she stated, adding that the death toll was likely to rise.The Pakistan Army said military physicians and paramedical staff from a nearby base were taking part in the relief effort. Army and paramilitary soldiers were already at the mishap website, and 2 army helicopters were participating in evacuations.Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Twitter that he was “shocked by the horrific train mishap” and had actually bought a “comprehensive investigation into train security fault lines.”Azam Khan Swati, the Pakistan Railways minister, said a high-level questions has actually been purchased to penetrate the cause of the collision. “It is too early to state whether the accident was because of sabotage or due to the worn out condition of the train track,” Mr. Swati said.Pakistan has an abysmal train-safety record, and the system is afflicted by corruption and mismanagement. Assures by successive governments to revamp the system have remained unfulfilled. Mr. Khan, who came to power in 2018, had promised to improve the systems badly kept signal system and aging tracks, and to ensure its security mechanisms.But train mishaps have been frequent under Mr. Khans federal government, too. More than 70 individuals were killed when a train caught fire in 2019, in one of the worst train accidents in recent years.In 2005, three trains crashed in a fatal chain-reaction after a train motorist misread a signal, killing at least 127 individuals and injuring hundreds more in southern Pakistan. At least 210 individuals passed away and 700 others were hurt in 1990, when a train on a 500-mile overnight run south from Multan to Karachi hit an empty freight train. Authorities blamed an improperly set switch.