A train crash victim at a hospital in Karachi on November 3. At least nine people were killed and 34 others were injured Tuesday in a train collision in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    ISLAMABAD, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- At least nine people were killed and 34 others were injured Tuesday in a train collision in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said.

    The official APP news agency reported that a Karachi-bound passenger train rammed into a goods train near the Juma Goth Station Tuesday morning.

    The collision was so intense that the first two economy class coaches were badly damaged resulting in deaths and injuries to passengers including women and children.

    Soon after the collision, people from nearby localities rushed to the scene and started rescue work and in the mean time, rescue workers from different organizations besides police, rangers and administration officials also reached the site.

    The injured and dead were retrieved from mingled coaches after cutting the steel with the help of gas cutters and rushed to local hospitals.

    Meanwhile the up-country railway traffic from Karachi was suspended because of relief work at the site.

    Police officer Mohammed Yusuf Soomro told reporters that the incident took place when the driver of the Karachi-bound passenger train did not observe the outer signal which was red and rammed into the rack of the goods train which was being shifted from loop line to up track.

Pakistani volunteers rescue passengers trapped in a passenger train after it collided with a cargo train on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>