at least 30 passengers have been killed after an express train derailed in southern pakistan. a police officer supervising the rescue operation said more than a hundred people had been injured in the incident. the hazara express came off the rails near nawabshah in sindh province, as it travelled from karachi to abbottabad. it s not immediately clear what caused the derailment. these are the latest pictures from the scene, in a remote area. emergency workers are battling to rescue passengers trapped in at least five overturned carriages, with more rescue teams deployed to the scene. an emergency has been declared in nearby hospitals including this one in nawabshah where casualties have been arriving. our correspondent tarhub asghar is following developments from lahore. well, a rescue operation is still going on. and according to the chief minister, he said that 30 people have been killed in this incident and 84 people are injured. and according to the officials, approximat
where president volodymyr zelensky says a russian guided bomb has hit a blood transfusion centre in the north east, causing casualties. he says rescuers are at the scene in the town of kupiansk where there are dead and wounded. the reported strike came shortly after kyiv said missiles had hit a facility which manufactures engines for aircraft and helicopters in the country s west. in a tweet, president zelensky said: so far, there s been no comment from russia. our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse is in kyiv. if there is accuracy to president zelensky s claim, it appears once again a medical building has come in harm s way. we ve seen it before with a maternity hospital in the besieged city of mariupol last year. we ve seen it in a mental health hospital in dnipro just a few months ago. this is a war that is synonymous with civilian areas, with cities being directly targeted. now, in president zelensky s tweet, he says, this war crime alone says everything about rus
we begin in niger, where the breaking news in the last half an hour is the military leaders who staged a coup say they have closed the country s airspace over what they called the threat of intervention against them. the announcement came as a deadline expired for them to restore the ousted president or face the possible action from the west african regional grouping known as ecowas. earlier thousands of people gathered in niger s capital to support the militaryjunta, despite international condemnation of the soldiers actions. some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. and algeria, which borders niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. france says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore niger s elected president. niger s prime minister was in paris on saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the country s embassy. he has dismissed that pro coup p
in the country s capital to support the militaryjunta as that deadline expired. some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. and algeria, which borders niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. france says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore niger s elected president. niger s prime minister was in paris on saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the country s embassy. let s now go live to our correspondent in lagos in neighbouring nigeria. we are yet to hear from ecowas and what of would be concerning niger. the ultimatum has elapsed the sunday evening and we are yet to hear from ecowas. but we also know that there are expected moves in niger in the coming days, the rally this afternoon showing pro coup supporters at a stadium in any army. this showed that the people supported the junto, this showed that the people supported thejunto, chanting