Death toll rises to 40 in Pakistan train crash, as rescuers try to free survivors

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A train plowed into another in southern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 40 passengers and leaving rescuers scrambling to free survivors from the wreckage, authorities said.

The crash occurred before dawn when one express train derailed and was struck by another a little more than a minute later, said a spokesman for Pakistan Railways, Tariq Asad. “There was no time for the [second] train to avoid the incident,” he said.