BALOCH PLA threatens to implement all hostages that Pakistani authorities are trying to intervene.
“The gunman was hijacked by the gunman for more than 450 passengers,” Muhammad Kashif, a senior railway government official in Quetta, the province’s capital, told AFP.
“During this operation, BLA combatants released women, children and Bal Road Passengers to ensure that all remaining hostages serve the personnel of the occupying forces,” the BLA said in a statement.
Railway officials said the Jaffar Express was heading from Quetta in Balluchistan province in southwestern Pakistan to Peshawar in Khurber Pakhtunkhwa.
The radical separatist group Bal Road Branch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement and said they had taken hostages from the train, including security forces.
Officials from the provincial government or railways did not confirm the hostages being taken.
