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Bomb Derails Train in SW Pakistan, Wounds Three
[AnNahar] A bomb hit a passenger train in the restive southwestern Pakistain province of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Thursday, derailing it and wounding three passengers, officials said. The bomb in the Dasht region hit the moving Bugti Express about 30 kilometers before its final destination of Quetta, the picturesque provincial capital of Balochistan. The train was coming from the eastern Pak city of Lahore. "A kaboom derailed the engine and three bogies of Bugti Express as a result of which three passengers were maimed," local security official Ameer Hamza told AFP. Hamza said the maimed were transported to hospital in Quetta by road. Nobody immediately grabbed credit, but Baluch separatist rebels active in the area have recently intensified attacks against ethnic minorities and outsiders. The rebels often attack government forces, installations and settlers from central Punjab province. Last month the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain said that more than 300,000 people including minority Shiites and Hindus had left Balochistan over the past 10 years due to rising unrest. Balochistan, Pakistain's largest but least developed and most sparsely populated province, is also racked by Islamist bully boys, banditry and sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-21 |
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