450 people taken hostage in deadly train siege in Pakistan

News.com.au - 12/03
About 450 train passengers were taken hostage and three killed after militants set off explosions on a railway track in southwestern Pakistan.

About 450 train passengers were taken hostage and three killed after militants set off explosions on a railway track in southwestern Pakistan.

The train in a remote area of Balochistan remains held up by rebel forces but more than 155 hostages have now been freed.

Pakistani security sources told AFP that the “clearance operation is ongoing” and “27 terrorists have been eliminated”.

Security sources said the “terrorists have positioned suicide bombers right next to innocent hostage passengers”.

Paramedics treat an injured passenger at the Mach railway station, which has been turned into a makeshift hospital. Picture: Banaras Khan / AFP

The assault was immediately clai...
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