An explosion in Pakistan's Balochistan province derailed six bogies of a train in the Mustung district, injuring at least four people, The Down reported citing officials.
FILE - An ambulance transports injured blast victims outside the police headquarters in Peshawar. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP) (AFP)
The train- Jaffar Express, from Peshawar was on route to Quetta, when the militants blew up the train tracks near Spezand town in Balochistan. The train had 270 passengers on board.
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According to a report in The Pakistan Tribune, a dozen passengers were injured in the accident. Rescue teams and security forces were rushed to the site immediately after the accident.
The Pakistani authorities said that the blast occurred when the train was passing through Spezand, when the powerful explosion damaged a portion of the railway track.
“Three people were injured in the blast and have been shifted to the Civil Hospital Trauma Centre, while an injured child has been taken to Combined Military Hospital,” Dawn quoted a local health official as saying.
The injured have been shifted to a nearby hospital.
The latest incident comes three days after a Quetta-bound Jaffar Express narrowly escaped a tragedy after a bomb planted near the track exploded after the train passed.
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