The driver of the Jafar Express has told the entire story of the train hijack in Balochistan, Pakistan. Jafar Express driver Amjad said that Baloch fighters had exploded on the first track. Due to this, many coaches derailed. After this, Baloch fighters took the train in their possession.
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At the time of the attack, there were about 500 passengers in the nine coaches of the Jafar Express. This rail was going from Quetta to Peshawar. The driver of the train Amjad said that the fighters exploded under the engine first. After this, the coaches derailed. The fighters captured the train as soon as the coach derailed.
Another passenger Mushtaq said that he and his family were in the third coach of the train at the time of the attack. He said that ‘a sharp explosion took place and the firing started after that. The firing continued for about an hour. This was such a scene that can never be forgotten. ‘ Another passenger Ishaq Noor said that he was going from Quetta to Rawalpindi with his wife and children. Noor said, ‘The blast was so fast that many windows and doors of the train were also broken.’
The Zafar Express, which left from Quetta to Peshawar on Tuesday, was taken hostage by the rebels in a tunnel near the hilly areas of Gudra and Piru Kunri. The rebels blew the track and captured it as soon as the train stopped. There were more than 400 passengers in the nine coaches. The BLA claimed responsibility for the attack and claimed to be hostage of 214 passengers. Also threatened to kill all the hostages on military action. The BLA had put members of its suicide squad among the hostages, who wore a suicide jacket. This led to difficulties in freeing the hostages for the security forces.
Pakistani Army spokesman Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif said on Wednesday that the security forces successfully completed the operation by killing all the 33 rebels at the scene and saving all the passengers safely. He said that 21 passengers were killed when the train attacked the train on Tuesday. The Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that no citizen was harmed in the armed forces’ campaign.