Pakistan mourns train hijack victims as railway station remains shut

Record ID: 1983755

  • Title: Pakistan mourns train hijack victims as railway station remains shut
  • Date: 14th March 2025
  • Summary: QUETTA, PAKISTAN (MARCH 14, 2025) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF THE MOSQUE IN QUETTA CITY THE SOUND OF PRAYERS ECHOED FROM THE MOSQUE'S MINARET IN THE BACKGROUND VARIOUS OF PEOPLE PRAYING IN THE MOSQUE VARIOUS OF MOURNERS OFFERING PRAYERS AT POLICE CONSTABLE SHAMROZ KHAN'S GRAVE IN QUETTA RAILWAY CEMETERY VARIOUS OF MOURNERS GATHERED AT THE RESIDENCE OF LATE POLICE CONSTABLE SHAMR
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  • Keywords: BLA PAKISTAN QUETTA TRAIN HIJACK
  • Location: QUETTA, PAKISTAN
  • City: QUETTA, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA001887914032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Quetta Railway Station remained closed for the third consecutive day on Friday (March 14), since the train hijacking on Tuesday (March 11).
    Pakistan's military spokesman said on Friday the death toll in a train hijacking in the country's southwestern mountains had risen to 31 and he repeated accusations that neighbouring India and Afghanistan backed the militants who carried it out.
    The separatist Baloch Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for hijacking the Jaffar Express on Tuesday.
    During the attack they blew up train tracks and held passengers hostage in a day-long standoff with security forces in a remote mountain pass in Balochistan province.
    Army spokesperson Major General Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry told a press conference in Islamabad that there was evidence that 'all the links to terrorism in Pakistan are traced back to Afghanistan'.
    India was the main sponsor of the insurgents, he added.
    The BLA is the largest and strongest of several ethnic Baloch insurgent groups which have been fighting for decades to win independence for the mineral-rich province, home to major China-led projects such as a port and gold and copper mines.
    (Production: Khair Muhammad, Salah Uddin, Yawar Afzal Malik, Reim Nahaboo)
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