Terrorists Blow up passenger train in Balochistan, 14 dead, 49 injured .

[nangyale]

Blast hits train in Pakistan's Balochistan

At least 14 dead, 49 injured after bomb rips through Rawalpindi-bound train in restive Balochistan province.

The explosion destroyed one of the train's compartment and caused big fire. [AFP]
An explosion has ripped through a train in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan, killing at least 14 people, officials said.

The bomb went off on the Rawalpindi-bound Jaffer Express in a carriage reserved for men in the town of Sibi about 160km south of the provincial capital of Quetta.

Local hospital treated 44 injured men and five seriously injured were flown to Quetta via helicopter, the district commissioner told Al Jazeera.

Two carriages of the train caught fire after the blast but the flames had since been extinguished, senior police official Mohammad Nazar said.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it came a day after paramilitary troops said they had launched an operation in the violence-racked province and killed around 40 armed men.

Resource-rich Balochistan is home to a long-running separatist conflict that was revived in 2004, with nationalists seeking to stop what they see as the exploitation of the region's natural resources and alleged rights abuses.

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

which countries do their leaders take asylum in? Have these countries not declared BLA types as terrorists?

 

[Edevelop]

Terror in Sibi: Passenger train bombed; 17 dead

QUETTA: At least 17 people — including a woman and five children — were killed and nearly four dozen wounded when a passenger train was bombed at Sibi railway station on Tuesday.

The banned United Baloch Army (UBA) claimed responsibility for the attack on Jaffar Express which was en route from Quetta to Rawalpindi. It came a day after paramilitary Frontier Corps killed ’40 Baloch militants’ in a crackdown in Kalat division.

Ten minutes after Jaffar Express chugged into the Sibi railway station at 1:35pm, a huge explosion tore through wagon No. 9 of the train, according to the police. The blast ignited a fireball which quickly swept through three carriages.

Medics and government officials confirmed that at least 17 passengers were killed and 44 others wounded – some of them critically. Twelve of the bodies, which are charred beyond recognition, have been shifted to Quetta for identification through DNA tests.

“The passengers, some of whom were on fire, screamed and struggled to escape,” senior police official Muhammad Nazar, who was at the scene, told AFP. “Most of the dead have been burnt to charcoal,” he added. The train had just pulled to a stop and passengers were disembarking when the bomb went off.

DIG Qazi Hussain said the fire was caused by gas cylinders in the passengers’ luggage that exploded after the blast. “Three wagons were completely destroyed. Everything inside was reduced to ashes,” he told The Express Tribune. “The explosive device used in the attack weighed around 20 kilogrammes.

It took the firefighters 40 minutes to douse the scorching inferno. But by the time the fire was extinguished, the wagons were already gutted.

Rescuers and security forces ferried the casualties to the Civil Hospital Sibi, where a state of emergency was declared. Some of the injured were also shifted to the military hospital in the district – while those with critical wounds were flown in military helicopters to Quetta. Railways staff and police disconnected the gutted wagons and the train left for its destination after the rescue operation was completed.

Ghulam Sarwar, the medical superintendent of the Civil Hospital Sibi, told The Express Tribune that the medical facility doesn’t have a mortuary which is why the charred bodies were shifted to Quetta. The United Baloch Army claimed credit for the grisly violence. “Today’s attack was a revenge against the military operation,” UBA spokesman Mureed Baloch said referring to the Kalat crackdown. “We warn the people not to travel in trains as we will continue attacks in the future,” he added.

According to Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique, preliminary investigation suggests that the bomb was planted by a woman. “The train was standing at Sibi railway station where FC and other law enforcement agencies are always alert. We will have to review the security and find out the cracks from where the terrorists slipped in and planted the explosives,” he added.

Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch immediately ordered an inquiry. “An investigation team, comprising officials from Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps and police, has been formed,” an official of the Balochistan government said.

Home Secretary Asad Gillani has said the Sibi bombing case will be registered under the Protection of Pakistan Ordinance – a law which has stirred a controversy in political circles and among rights campaigners. If registered, this will be the fourth case registered under the PPO in Balochistan.

It was a second attack on passenger trains within four days. On March 31, Akbar Bugti Express was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades in Bolan which left two people dead.

Terror in Sibi: Passenger train bombed; 17 dead – The Express Tribune

 

[American Pakistani]

Where were blind LEA's? Total failure.

RIP to dead. Death to BLA & it's rats.

 

[Nothing]

Why there was gas cylinder with passenger luggage ? In India you can't carry this kind of sensitive flammable material with passenger. Railway cops and ticket checkers are very strict about it.

Terrorists are worst but common men also don't use its mind most of time.
RIP to dead ones and hope government caught them

 

[Thorough Pro]

a desperate and cowardly response to killing of 30 BLA terrorists by FC.

 

[dawn_news]

40 of BLA killed couple of days ago, how they respond by killing children and woman. Kiya concept hai revenge ka

 

[jarves]

RIP.

 

[CENTCOM]

It is a sad day when travelers are targeted and killed on a train which was so far considered a relatively safer way to travel. Our heart and prayers go out to the families of those killed in this senseless attack and we wish, people who are injured, quick and complete recovery. Terrorists have targeted common Pakistani and attacked them everywhere not only to destabilize Pakistan but to demoralize the public as well. We cannot give the terrorist an iota of satisfaction. We need to stand united and support our security agencies to do their work in bringing about the desired peace. The United States stands with Pakistan as it tackles this challenge of militancy.


Abdul Quddus
DET-United States Central Command

 

[BATMAN]

The United States stands with Pakistan as it tackles this challenge of militancy.
Abdul Quddus
DET-United States Central Command

US should push Pakistan govt. to secure red warrants of Brahamdagh Bugti?

 

[A.Rafay]

RIP to innocents.

Cowards attacking passengers!

 

[Kompromat]

Rest in peace.

 

[American Eagle]

The Devil himself, not God fearing men, did this dastardly, cowardly, and totally irrational attack.

I believe in a literal Hell as a Christian (Methodist) and would hope those who did this are sent there, to Hell, as soon as possible by the pursuing Pakistani military and police.

 

[The Sultan Erdogan]

Why doesn't Pakistan act like a "state"?

Have your powerful agencies map-out these rats...and annihilate them in one brilliant secret operation.

Where is Pakistan government? I heard the leaders of this organization are in United Kingdom and Switzerland. Pakistan must bring these monsters to justice.

 

[third eye]

Why doesn't Pakistan act like a "state"?

This is the question most Pakistanis here ask and so does the rest of the world.