QUETTA, Pakistan - Suspected tribal militants, fighting for greater political and economic autonomy, blew up a railway line linking southwestern Pakistan to Iran early on Saturday, a railway official said.Four bombs exploded at the railway track near the town of Noshki in southern Baluchistan province several hours before the train bound for the Iranian border town of Zahedan was due to pass. Noshki is 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan. “The train was stopped shortly after it left Quetta. No one was hurt in the blast,” Mohmmad Mushtaq, a senior railway official in Quetta, told Reuters.
He said a fifth bomb remained unexploded and efforts were being made to defuse it.
No one claimed responsibility for the blasts but the government has previously blamed Baluch militants for such attacks.