‘Breathing through firing’: Passengers described Pakistan train hijack scenes

‘Breathing through firing’: Passengers described Pakistan train hijack scenes



Passengers on the Jafar Express in Balochistan, Pakistan have talked about “Dumsed scenes”. “We stopped our breath during the firing, don’t know what will be ahead,” Ishaq Noor, who was on the board during the kidnapping, told that BBC,

400 passengers were traveling from Quetta to Peshawar on Tuesday when the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) attacked the train and took it as some hostages.

According to the army, 190 passengers have been freed and 27 terrorists have been killed. Rescue operations continue. However, the BLA has warned of “serious consequences” if no attempt is made to save the remaining hostages.

According to reports, security officials have said that some terrorists have taken some passengers in the hilly area.

He said that Muhammad Ashraf, who was traveling from Quetta to Lahore to visit a family, said, “There was a lot of fear among the passengers. It was a scene of the Holocaust day,” he said. He and his wife tried to protect their child by preserving between bullets. “If a bullet comes in our way, it will be killed and not the children,” he said.

“The attackers were talking to each other in Balochi, and their leader repeatedly asked them to ‘keep an eye’, especially on security personnel to ensure that (the attackers) do not lose them,” Mushtaq Muhammad, a passenger in a train car said, a passenger in the train car, and called the attack “unlike”.

From Tuesday evening, the terrorists began to release some residents of Balochistan, women, children and elderly passengers.

On Wednesday, the BBC loaded wooden coffins at Quetta railway station. An official said that he was being taken for potential casualties.

Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission said that this train is “seriously worried” by kidnapping.

“We urge all relevant stakeholders to have an immediate right-based, pro-consensus on the issues faced by citizens in Balochistan and to find a peaceful, political solution,” said in a statement.


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