How to spread the train in Pakistan

Mehboob Hussain rides at the train house on Tuesday when the passages under the front car explode.

In the depths of Central Pakistan’s Bolan Pass, a pocket of the remote remote without an Internet or mobile network cover, the nine coach Jaffar Express on the ground to stop. Then bullets start flying.

“I’m a train passenger attacked,” Mr Hassain told BBC Urdu.

He, with about 440 more, traveling from Quetta to Peshawar by the center of the military restoration of armed militars – they bombed the tracks and pumped the tracks.

The Balochistan Liberation Army (Bla) quickly claims responsibility for the siege, and threatened to kill many of the pakistani prisons in Baloch poliply within 48 hours.

The group, which many countries have taught a terrorist organization, entered a decade of long-suffering to gain freedom for Balochistan, Accusing Islamabad to exploit The resources of the mineral province while letting it down.

FLA militant militarys have a long history of attacking military camps, train station and regional train.

But this is the first time they have hijacked one.

Saksaw lasts 30 hours. According to the authorities, 300 passengers have been released today, and 33 militants, 21 civilian hostages and four military personnel were killed. But contradictory numbers suggest many passengers remain unknown.

Information related to the attack and the subsequent rescue operation is tightly controlled altogether.

But the BBC was able to speak Many eyewitnesseses depict the “Sens of Last” dismissal “to ride the train while attacks spread.

As Ishaq Noor told the BBC Urdu in the first few times: “We blows our breath, don’t know what’s going to happen.”

A police officer on the railroad riding a train told by the BBC Urdu, as opposed to the initial reports from Pakistan’s authorities, not in a sammel but hit.

But also released an alleged video once the train hit the blast. It shows an open track section running along the base of a large stone slope.

On the upper slope, according to the video, a cluster of bol fights.

The officer described by the BBC how he first “interacted with other police officers to” try and take off the military until “the bullets disappear”.

“They (the bla) acted before us the mountain and more of us, in hundreds,” the officer, who spoke of non-fession. He explained that four train police and two members of the Paramilitary Corps in Pakistan (FC).

At least 100 of those who are on the train are members of security forces, according to Pakistani officials.

“I told my partner to give me the G-3 rifle because it was a better weapon,” the officer explained. “When I got the rifle and the rounds, we started firing again. I used to burn an hour with them so that they couldn’t approach us and the train …

When the gun from Jaffar Express stopped, militants came down from adjacent mountains and began to bring passengers to train train, the officer said.

“They began investigating the cards and told people to go this way, so,” he said, explaining that the hostages were separated from groups, according to their ethnicity.

Militants speak Balochi, he added, and declared, “We ask the government and if we do not apply; we will burn the vehicle”.

The officer claimed militants who received orders: “They will get orders to kill, and they will take people from the group and kill them.”

Some passengers, however, allowed to leave uneasy – including women, children, old and those living in Balochistan, according to Mr Noor.

Among the release was Noor Muhammad. He said that when the first volleys of the gun stopped after an hour, the armed men were forced to open the train door and entered “to go out”.

Mr. Muhammad said he brought the train, and when he told the militants his wife was still behind the car, they also took him. After they “told us straight and not turning back”.

The couple walked through the wilderness, he said, and with “great hardship” reached Panir Railway Station at about 7am, where they were resting.

Her husband recalls the moment the military arrives in Pakistan to meet them.

“They told me, ‘Ma’am, to go with us, we’ll take you safe home,'” he said. The soldiers took couples in Mach town, he added, “And then we reached Quetta to our children, waiting for us”.

Some passengers who made the train leaving on Tuesday night said they were walking almost four hours to reach the next train station. They included Muhammad Ashraf, riding the train to Lahore to visit his family.

“We reached the station in a lot of difficulty,” he told the BBC Urdu, “because we were tired and have children and girls with us.”

As the evening of Jaffar Express, many militants crashed, according to police officer of unwanted name.

“Many of them hugged each other and 70, 80 people left while 20, 25 remained back,” he said.

At around 10pm, he recalls, violence feels again.

“Some people tried to run, they (the bla) saw them and opened fire, then everyone fell to the ground,” The officer said.

Mr. Mehboob was the same as the gun all night – and said that at one time, someone close to him, with five daughters, shot.

“If someone is killed in front of your eyes, you don’t know what to do,” he said.

Another passenger, Allahditta, said his cousin was killed before him. He said his cousin begged the militants not to kill him as he had young daughters but “his life was not saved”.

The BBC on Wednesday found many wooden casks loaded at Stateway State. A rail officer said empty and carried in collecting casualties.

During the morning prayer of Wednesday that savers from the FC began to fire fib militants, said Mr. Allahditta.

Between sudden riot, he and others freezes.

“In the opening of FC at Fajr time to call the prayer, we escape from militants,” says Mr. Allahdita.

The police officer is equally remembered once FC moved, in short focus of the military military military from hostages.

“When it comes to FC in the morning, the attention of these people has become this direction,” the officer said. “I told my partner, ‘let’s check to stay away.'”

Milities fired the escaped as they fled, and the officer said his companion was hit from behind.

“He told me to let him go. I said no, I’ll take you to my shoulder. Then a man also went with the hands and went down to the hills.”

Mr Mehboob, Mr. Allahdita, police officer and his companion survived the Jaffar Express alive as the FC attacked the militants.

Military and paramilitary troops and helicopters surround the stranded train since Tuesday. On Wednesday, they killed the hostage-takers and cleaned the site, according to the military spokesman.

Authorities say 440 train passengers – and 300 of them are released. But it is unclear what happened to the remaining 140. Reuters and AFPs quote an unidentified official security that tells some miliyants left to passengers.

The military said it was still working to find passengers who escaped and fled to the neighboring area, and forced that anyone involved in the hijacking will bring in justice.

Mr Noor, now distributing alms and charities in his town with his wife, grateful to survive his life in his life.

“Thank God,” said Mr Noor. “He saves us.”