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How Pakistan rescued passengers from a hijacked train, BLA fighters were sitting among the people wearing suicide jackets

  
  
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  The Pakistani army has claimed to have rescued the passengers of the hijacked Jafar Express train from the clutches of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA). Pakistan said that the military clash with the rebels has ended. All the passengers have been sent to Quetta city. The army has claimed to have killed 33 rebels. The encounter between the Pakistani army and the rebels continued for almost a day. The Pakistani army said that 21 hostages and four security personnel were killed in the rebel attack. The insurgents took the passengers hostage after attacking the Jafar Express train, which was going from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, to Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The BLA claimed responsibility for it. The rebels hijacked the train after a rocket attack. There were more than 440 people on board the train. The Pakistani army said that 21 hostages and four soldiers were killed during the standoff. Today we have freed a large number of people, including women and children. The final operation was carried out with great caution. Military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that no civilians were killed in the final phase of the operation. BLA had given a 48-hour ultimatum Earlier to the Pakistani army, the Baloch Liberation Army had said that it had killed 50 passengers on Wednesday evening. On Tuesday, the group claimed to have taken 214 people hostage. The group had given the Pakistani army an ultimatum that if the authorities did not release Baloch political prisoners, activists and missing persons within 48 hours, they would start killing the hostages. How the train driver saved his life Train driver Amjad said that the rebels opened fire on the train. After this, I immediately lay down on the floor of the train. The rebels broke the window and entered the train. They thought I was dead. After that he left. I hid there for about 27 hours until the security forces arrived. How the Pakistani army took action Pakistan's junior interior minister Talal Chaudhry said that the rebels were wearing suicide vests and were sitting in hostages. This made it difficult to carry out military operations. He also said that 70-80 attackers had hijacked the train. Chaudhry added that hundreds of soldiers were sent to the spot. The air force and special forces were also deployed. In the final phase of the operation, the special forces killed the first suicide bombers. Then the soldiers went from one compartment to another to kill the remaining rebels.
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