Terror aboard ‘Jaffar Express’


Help is here: A soldier working to evacuate freed train passengers at the Mach railway station, which has been turned into a makeshift hospital. — AFP

SUICIDE bombers were seated next to some of the scores of passengers taken hostage after separatists hijacked a train in southwest Pakistan, complicating rescue efforts, security sources said.

About 60 Balochi insurgents blew up a railway track and lobbed rockets at the Jaffar Express on Tuesday, which had over 400 people on board, a security official said.

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