At least seven people have been killed after a car on a moving passenger train caught fire in southern Pakistan, officials say.
Railways official Mohsin Sial said the train caught fire overnight in Khairpur, a district about 500 kilometres north of Karachi, the capital of Sindh province.
He said six people were killed in the blaze while a woman died when she jumped from the window of the moving train.
The blaze also badly damaged several other cars in the train, she said.
The cause remains unclear.
TV footage showed several burned sections of the train, which was on its way from Karachi to the eastern city of Lahore.
Local media reported the flames roared through the train on Wednesday night, engulfing several cars.
Poor passengers in Pakistan often bring small gas stoves on trains to cook their meals, despite rules barring them.
Safety regulations are often ignored in overcrowded trains.
Train accidents in Pakistan are often the result of poor railway infrastructure and official negligence.
In 2019, at least 74 passengers were killed and dozens were injured in a train fire triggered when a cooking gas stove exploded in the eastern Punjab province.
Also on Thursday, a roadside bomb targeted police vehicles in Khuzdar, a district in the volatile south-western Baluchistan province, killing a local police chief working for the working terrorism department, officials said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but suspicion fell on separatist groups and militants who have claimed previous such attacks in the region and elsewhere in the country.
