(14 Mar 2025)
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Quetta, Pakistan – 14 March 2025
1. Various of train attack survivor Nair Husnain in hospital bed, talking to his father
2. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Nair Husnain, survivor of train attack:
"The FC (Frontier Constabulary) soldiers who were guarding the train were martyred. Apart from them, only two were left, an ATF (Anti-Terrorist Force ) commando and a railway police officer. They (militants) took them hostage. They took their weapons and they took control of the train. They made all the passengers get off and sit in a row. They checked and took ID cards of the army personnel. They checked each and every soldier who came out. They separated the private soldiers. They separated the government employees, tied their hands and shot them to death.”
3. Close of Husnain’s bandaged hand due to gun shot
4. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Nair Husnain, survivor of train attack:
“This scene was a scene of doomsday. You have 40-42 hours without water or anything to eat. You are lying on the ground in the scorching sun in the desert. No one is allowed to raise their head. If anyone raises their head, they will be shot in the head. No one can talk to anyone, even if they are together and they killed three young sons of a mother in front of her, imagine what this mother must have gone through.”
5. Husnain talking to family members
6. Wide of ward with wounded lying on beds
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mohammad Tanveer, survivor of train attack:
“Within about an hour and a half, they (militants) took us down to the ground area and made everyone sit there. Then they separated us by nationality. They separated the Saraiki, separated the Punjabi, separated the Pathan, separated the Baloch, and separated the others.”
8. Close of Tanveer’s hand with canula
9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mohammad Tanveer, survivor of train attack:
“My friends had planned to run away, more than half of them, about 100 of them, ran away. Many of them have been injured and many have been martyred. So, because of this anger, they fired directly at us. Based on this, I was also shot and so were our other friends.”
10. Tanveer getting treatment
11. Tanveer sleeping
12. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Nair Husnain, survivor of train attack:
“Since we were rescued from there, it is the second or third day, but their voices still echo in our ears. We try to sleep, but it seems to us as if they are calling us, they are making signs to say, "Get up, get up," like they used to make signs at gunpoint or like they used to talk to us. We still haven’t been able to get them out of our minds, nor will it get out quickly. It is an incident that suddenly comes in your life, it comes for a moment, but it leaves slowly, slowly.”
13. Husnain talking to his father
14. Wide of ward
15. Exterior of Quetta civil hospital trauma centre
STORYLINE:
Survivors of an unprecedented attack in Pakistan’s restive southwest recounted their harrowing 36-hour ordeal on Friday, after armed separatists this week killed 26 passengers aboard a hijacked train.
College student Nair Husnain said he saw the militants go through the train, asking people to stand up and tying their hands before shooting them several times.
They first killed soldiers, then minority Shiites and Punjabis. Balochs were spared.
Husnain, who also made his escape while the hijackers were exchanging fire with Pakistani security forces as they laid siege to the train, recounted how a mother traveling with three sons — all soldiers — had to watch as they were shot and killed.
"Imagine what this mother must have gone through,” he said.
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