The accident occured at 06:30 local time (01:30 UTC)[2] on the Tezgam express passenger train travelling from Karachi to Rawalpindi when the train was in Liaquatpur Tehsil, Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab Province. Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, the Federal Minister for Railways, reported that two gas stoves exploded, setting the train on fire. Three carriages were destroyed.[2]