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Relatives desperately sought news of their loved ones on Thursday as medical workers struggled to identify mangled corpses a day after about 150 people died in Pakistan’s worst train crash in 15 years. Stations across the country have been thronged with people frantically searching victim lists posted by the authorities.

The first thing many passengers heard was a huge bang that shocked them out of their sleep. They saw something right out of a nightmare. ”We saw several coaches skidded off the track and there were bodies lying scattered across the railway yard,” said one survivor of Pakistan’s rail disaster on Wednesday, which left up to 150 people dead.

Three passenger trains collided at a southern Pakistan station early on Wednesday, killing around 150 people and injuring 1 000 in the country’s worst rail disaster for a more than a decade, officials said. Police said the death toll could rise to 300 following the devastating pile-up near the remote town of Ghotki.