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| Seven killed as blast hits Khushhal express in Jacobabad |
| 2014-02-17 |
| [DAWN] A bomb targeting a passenger train near Unnar Wah railway station in Jacobabad killed at least seven people and maimed more than 30 others on Sunday, officials said. "The Khushhal Khan Khattak express train was on its way to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... when it was hit by the blast, killing seven passengers including three children and wounding over 30 others," a senior local administration official, Sardar Jamali told AFP. "The corpse count in the kaboom rose to seven after two injured persons died of their wounds in a hospital in Jacobabad town," Jamali said. He added that three passenger wagons were derailed and two of them were severely damaged by the impact of the kaboom. Jamali said that Sunday's bomb was likely an improvised bomb, while the general manager of Pakistain Railways, Anjum Parvaiz, suggested it was a remote controlled kaboom planted on the track. Parvaiz, who confirmed the incident and casualties, said 800 metres of railway track had been damaged. A kaboom in one of the compartments of a train on the same Karachi-bound route last month in the central town of Rajanpur in Punjab province killed three people and maimed 20 others. Nobody immediately claimed the responsibility for the latest bombing. |
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