(13 Mar 2025)
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Mach, Pakistan – 13 March 2025
1. Wide exterior of Mach railway station with ambulances parked
2. Various of rescue workers loading coffins into ambulances
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Majid Khan, PDMA (Pakistan Disaster Management Authority) deputy in charge:
“As soon as we received orders, we brought 15 ambulances from across the country here to Mach railway station. As you know, so far 25 dead bodies have been recovered."
4. Rescue workers loading coffin into ambulance
5. Various of ambulances carrying coffins departing
STORYLINE:
Authorities in Pakistan have sent the bodies of 25 hostages, including four paramilitary force soldiers, who were killed on a hijacked train to Peshawar.
Earlier this week, insurgents attacked a passenger train carrying 440 passengers in restive southwestern Pakistan and killed 21 hostages before security forces killed all 33 assailants. All other passengers were rescued, officials said Wednesday.
Majid Khan, a deputy in charge at the Pakistan Disaster Management Authority, said that "so far 25 dead bodies have been recovered."
Three soldiers who had been guarding the railroad track were also killed in the attack that began Tuesday in restive Balochistan province, military spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif told local media.
The Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for attacking the train in a tunnel in a remote part of Balochistan. Spokesman Jeeyand Baloch said the group was ready to free passengers if authorities agreed to release jailed militants.
The BLA regularly targets Pakistani security forces and has also attacked civilians, including Chinese nationals among the thousands working on multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects in Balochistan.
AP video by Muhammad Farooq
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