The Pakistani security forces conducted a rescue task on the afternoon of 11.3 after a group of separatists bombed a train track in the province of Balchistan in southwestern Pakistan and attacked a train carrying about 450 passengers.
“346 hostages were rescued and more than 30 terrorists were destroyed in this campaign,” a Pakistan army officer told AFP on an unnamed condition because he was not allowed to talk to the media. The officer also said that the 27 soldiers were killed on board as passengers. A soldier on duty was killed in the rescue campaign.
The railway separatist group captured the hostage, the Pakistani army action
The officer did not give ordinary population, but before that a railway official and a medical staff said the train driver and a police officer were killed. On March 11, Muhammad Kashif, a senior official of the railway industry in Quetta, the capital of the Balochistan province, said that 450 passengers on the train were taken hostage.
The separatist group of Baloch Liberation Army (Bla) immediately took responsibility for the attack, published a video of the explosion on the track, then dozens of members appearing from the hiding place on the mountain.
In a statement after taking responsibility for the attack, Bla asked to talk to the security forces in exchange for detained members.
Soldiers on 12.3 protect the railway station after the security forces of Pakistan freed a number of passengers after the security campaign against the fighters ambushing the train in Mach in the province of Balchistan on March 11
Passengers escaped or released by gunmen described the panic when the gunmen took control of the ship, classified guests according to identity, fired at the soldiers but released some families.
“They asked us to get out of the train one by one, separated the women and asked to leave. They also forgive the elderly,” Muhammad Naveed, who escaped, recounted. “They asked us to go out, saying we wouldn’t be harmed. [Sau đó] They chose some people and shot down them. “
Mr. Babar Masih, a 38 -year -old worker, said on March 12 that he and his family walked for hours through rugged mountains so that a train could take them to a temporary hospital on a platform. “Our women prayed to them, and they forgive us. They told us to go out and not to look back. When we ran, I saw many others running with us,” Masih told AFP.
