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‘Gunmen shot them all…’: Blow-by-blow account of Pakistan train hijacking horror in Balochistan

Baloch Liberation Army militants killed 21 hostages during a train hijacking in Pakistan. Security forces later eliminated all attackers.

Gunmen shot them all

Baloch Liberation Army militants, who attacked a passenger train carrying 440 passengers in restive southwestern Pakistan, killed 21 hostages before security forces killed all 33 of the assailants, and all other passengers were rescued, officials said Wednesday.

Pakistan information minister Attaullah Tarar said the separatist Baloch Liberation Army or BLA group was behind the attack, and the military operation “has successfully reached its logical conclusion”.

He said no passengers died because of the operation, and praised the military for “averting a potential catastrophe". The province’s chief minister, Sarfraz Bugti, told a provincial assembly that troops killed all insurgents involved.

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"They asked us to come out of the train one by one. They separated women and asked them to leave. They also spared elders," said Muhammad Naveed, who managed to escape, told AFP.

"They asked us to come outside, saying we will not be harmed. When around 185 people came outside, they chose people and shot them down."

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