Armed individuals stopped Jaffer Express inside Tunnel No. 8 (in Bolan),” Muhammad Kashif, Quetta Railways’ controller told CNN. The train, which departed from Quetta at 9 a.m. local time, consists of nine coaches and is carrying approximately 450 passengers,

Almost 350 hostages were rescued and 27 were killed after the Baloch Liberation Army hijacked a train in Pakistan's Balochistan province.

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A militant group says it bombed the rail line before taking passengers on a train hostage in Balochistan province.

The Pakistani government, facing a widening security crisis in the country’s restive southwest, has given little indication it intends to negotiate with the militants.

"I was a passenger on the train that was attacked," Mr Hussain told BBC Urdu. He, along with some 440 others, had been travelling from Quetta to Peshawar through the heart of the restive Balochistan province when a group of armed militants struck – they bombed the tracks,

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -Dozens of people rescued from a train hijacked by separatist militants in southwestern Pakistan arrived on Thursday in the city of Quetta, hours after security forces killed all 33 attackers to end a day-long standoff.