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Al Jazeera
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Saadullah Akhter

‘A rain of rockets and bullets’: Survivors of Pakistan’s train hijacking

An injured man rescued by security forces from a passenger train attacked by separatists sits in an ambulance at a railway station in Mach, Balochistan, Pakistan, March 12, 2025 [Naseer Ahmed/Reuters]

Quetta, Pakistan – Survivors of Tuesday’s deadly train hijacking by Baloch separatists have described how they watched fellow passengers being executed and fled while being shot at.

Dozens of fighters belonging to the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) targeted nine carriages of the Jaffar Express with rocket-propelled grenades and gunshots as it passed through colonial-era tunnels in the rugged, mountainous Bolan Pass.

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