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How the Pakistan train hijacking unfolded

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More than 400 people were on the train when they were attacked

Mehbob Hussain was riding the train on Tuesday when the paths below the front car exploded.

In the depths of the Pakistan Pakistan Corridor in central Pakistan, a wilderness that is so far that there is no coverage of an internet or mobile network, Javar Javar expresses nine coach. Then the bullets began to fly.

“I was a passenger on the attack,” Mr. Hussein told BBC URDU.

He was, along with about 440 others, traveling from Quetta to Peshawar through the comfortable heart of Balochistan when a group of armed militants struck – bombed the paths, opened fire on the train and then stormed the vehicles.

Soon the Liberation Army in Baluchistan (BLA) claimed its responsibility for the siege, and threatened to kill many of the plane if the Pakistani authorities did not launch political prisoners with a brush within 48 hours.

The group, with which many countries have identified a terrorist organization, have rebelled for decades to gain independence for Baluchistan, The accusation of Islamabad of exploitation Conservation -rich mineral resources with their neglect as well.

BLA fighters have a long history of attacking military camps, railway stations and railways in the region.

But this was the first time they were kidnapped.

The siege lasted for more than 30 hours. According to the authorities, 300 passengers, 33 Bla militants, 21 civil hostages and four military personnel have now been released. But conflicting numbers indicate that many passengers are still missing.

Information related to the attack and the subsequent rescue process were tightly controlled.

But the BBC was able to talk to him Multiple eyewitnesses described “scenes of the Day of Resurrection” on the train with the attack revealed.

As Ishaq Nour BBC Urdu said to those first few moments: “We have held our breath throughout the shooting, we do not know what will happen next.”

Battle of firearms

The railway police officer, who was on the BBC, told the Urdu that, contrary to the initial reports by the Pakistani authorities, the train was “not in a tunnel but in an open area” when it was beaten.

Bla also released an alleged video clip of the moment the train was exploded. It appears an open part of the path that runs along a large rocker base.

At the top of this slope, according to the video, it is a group of BLA fighters.

The BBC officer described how he initially fought with other police officers “to try to stick to the militants until” ammunition has run out. “

“they [the BLA] The officer who occurs, provided that his identity is not disclosed.

At least 100 of those on the train were members of the security forces, according to Pakistani officials.

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BLA released footage of what she says was the moment when her fighters attacked the train

“I told my companion to give me the G-3 gun because it is a better weapon,” the officer explained. “When I got the gun and tours, we also started shooting. I used to shoot at one time so that they could not get close to us and the train … [But] Within an hour and a half, our rounds ended … We were helpless. “

The officer said that when the shooting stopped from those on board the Jaffar Express, the gunmen descended from the surrounding mountains and began transporting passengers from the train.

“They started examining cards and telling people to go this way,” he said.

He added that the gunmen were speaking in Balushi, and announced: “We have requested demands for the government, and if they are not fulfilled, we will not spare anyone; we will set fire to the car.”

The officer claimed that the gunmen were receiving orders: “They would receive death orders, and they would pick up people from the group and kill them. They killed many people – both the army and civilians.”

The first version

However, some passengers were allowed to leave without being harmful – including women, children, the elderly and those who lived in Balochistan, according to Mr. Nour.

He was among those who issued Nour Muhammad. He said that when the initial hells of the shooting stopped an hour later, the armed men were forced to open the door on the train and entered, saying, “Go out or shoot you.”

Mr. Mohamed said that he watched him from the train, and when he told the gunmen that his wife was still in the back of the car, they also took it out. Then “they told us to go straight and not look back.”

He said that the spouses marched through the wilderness, and reached a “great difficulty” at the Bandir railway station around 1900, when they rested.

His wife recalled the moment when the Pakistani army arrived to meet them.

She said, “Tell me, madam, come with us, we will take you home safely.” She added that the soldiers took the spouses to the city of Makh, saying: “Then we arrived in Kuwait to our children, who were waiting for us.”

Some passengers who managed to leave the train late on Tuesday evening said they walked for about four hours to reach the next railway station. Among them is Mohamed Ashraf, who was riding the train to Lahore to visit his family.

“We got to the station with great difficulty, because we were tired and there were children and women with us.”

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Footage at night

As the night dropped on Jaafar Express, dozens of BLA fighters began leaving, according to the police official who did not want to name.

“Many of them embraced each other and left 70, 80 people, while 20, 25 years remained,” he said.

At approximately 10 pm, he remembers, violence erupted again.

“Some people tried to escape, [the BLA] He saw them and opened the fire, then everyone fell to the ground. “

Mr. Mehbob summoned the fire similar to the night – and said that at some point, a person close to him, who had five daughters, was shot.

“When someone kills in front of your eyes, you don’t know what to do,” he said.

Another passenger, Al -Hamda, said that his cousin was killed in front of him by BLA. He said that his cousin was pleading with the militants for not killing him because he had young girls, but “his life was not saved.”

On Wednesday, the BBC witnessed dozens of wooden coffins loaded at the Quetta railway station. A railway official said they were empty and were transported to collect losses.

Morning escape

Mr. Al -Lahdita said that the morning prayer on Wednesday began the FC rescuers shooting on Bla fighters.

Amid sudden chaos, he and others were released.

And Mr. God said: “When FC opened the fire at the time of FAJR to pray, we escaped from the militants.”

The police official recalled the moment when FC moved, briefly converting the Bla militants’ focus away from the hostages.

“When FC arrived in the morning, these people turned to this direction,” the official said. “I told my companion,” Let’s try to escape. “

The gunmen opened fire on the fugitives while they fled, and the official said that his companion was injured from behind.

“Tell me to abandon it. I said no, I will carry you on my shoulder. Then another person also joined our hands and went to the hills and got out of the shooting range.”

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Mr. Allah was among those who escaped from the train when the rescuers arrived

Mr. Mahboub, Mr. God, the police official and his companion, all managed to escape from Jaffar Express alive while FC attacked the militants.

Military and Vazzi forces and helicopters surrounded the missile that has been cut off since Tuesday. On Wednesday, they killed the pensioners the hostages and removed the site, according to a military spokesman.

The authorities said that there were 440 passengers on the train – 300 of them were released. But it is still unclear what happened to the rest of the 140. Reuters and Agence France Presse quoted an unveiled security official who said that some of the amilians had left, and he took an unknown number of passengers with them.

The army says it is still working to find passengers who escaped and fled to the surrounding area, and insists that anyone else involved in the kidnapping will be offered to justice.

Mr. Nour, who is now distributing charity and charitable works in his hometown with his wife, is only grateful to escape the situation in his life.

“Praise be to God,” said Mr. Nour. “We saved us.”

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2025-03-13 12:40:00

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