The military in Pakistan concluded today, in the middle, a clash with separatist fighters who hijacked a train with passengers in the province of Balochistan in the southwest of the country and held dozens of people hostage.
According to the Pakistani army, security forces neutralized today, in the middle, the train, captured by separatists, where they held hostages throughout the day. This ended with the mass killing of all abductors, their number was 33 people.
An insider in law enforcement reported that the separatists from the province of Balochistan detonated yesterday, on Tuesday, iron ore routes and shelled the train Jaffer Express, which was on its way from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, to Peshawar, in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Pakistani armed forces confirmed the death of 21 hostages and all 33 militants.
"We liberated today numerous people, including women and children... The last operation was carried out extremely carefully," - said army representative Ahmad Sherif Chudkhri, adding that during the operation not a single civilian was harmed.
He stated that security forces successfully "cleared the train of all wrongdoers," noting that three soldiers, ensuring the safety of the route, died in the initial attack yesterday, on Tuesday, during the assault.
The head of the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sarfaraz Bugti, informed the local council that the forces eliminated all militants involved in the assault.
In the evening, before the army's statement, the group "Balochistan Liberation Army" claimed that it had killed 50 passengers and threatened to start killing hostages after the expiration of the 48-hour deadline, if the authorities did not respond to the demands for the release of detained politicians, activists, and missing persons from among the Baloch, claiming that their army abducted them.
Earlier, a senior official stated that between 70 and 80 attackers abducted the train.
