BAHAWALPUR: The parents of schoolchildren who were killed in a train collision with a motorcycle-rickshaw staged a protest against the Pakistan Railways, demanding that FIR of the incident should be filed on their behalf.

They also demanded that construction of a flyover over the railway track should be stahed at the earliest.

Dawn learnt that the Pakistan Railways had lodged an FIR of the accident on the complaint of a railway guard with the Lodhran Saddar police station.

The driver of the train, Hazara Express (down), and the watchman of the railway crossing are in police custody.

The protest demonstration was organised by the families of the victims -Danish, Rizwan, Fahar and Maryam.

The families of the deceased children said they were the actual victims of the tragedy but the PR had ignored them while filing the case FIR which was not acceptable to them.

They apprehended they won`t be getting justice on the base of the FIR lodged on behalf of an official.

Besides, they demanded that the a flyover at the railway crossing should soon be built as promised by minister Khwaja Saad Rafique.

Police officials arriving at the scene assured the bereaved families that their demands would be conveyed to the concerned quaners.