(13 Mar 2025)
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Mach, Pakistan – 13 March 2025
1. Train carrying last group of survivors arriving at Mach railway station
2. Various of survivors
3. Various of survivors sitting in bus
4. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Khusro Dilawri, Mach Assistant Commissioner:
“We have dispatched more than 50 civilian survivors to Quetta after feeding them, with full security and safety.”
5. Various of survivors inside bus
6. Bus leaving carrying survivors
STORYLINE:
Authorities in Pakistan sent the last remaining civilian survivors of a hijacked train to Quetta under heavy security, an official said.
Khusro Dilawri, Mach Assistant Commissioner, said on Thursday that officials had "dispatched more than 50 civilian survivors to Quetta after feeding them, with full security and safety.”
Earlier in the week, insurgents had attacked a passenger train carrying 440 passengers in restive southwestern Pakistan and killed 21 hostages before security forces killed all 33 of the assailants, officials said Wednesday.
The remaining passengers were all rescued, the officials added.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the separatist Baloch Liberation Army 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.
Three soldiers who had been guarding the railroad track were also killed in the attack that began Tuesday in restive Balochistan province, the 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. Spokesperson Jeeyand Baloch had said the group was ready to free passengers if authorities agreed to release jailed militants.
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