QUETTA:
At least four people were injured on Sunday when an improvised explosive device (FDI) derailed five Jaffar Express coaches to Peshawar at the Spezand railway station in Mastung, according to Pakistan Railways (PR) officials.
The explosion hit a train track near the Spezand train station derailing the Jaffar Express 39-UP train, which extends from Quetta to Peshawar.
The five passengers suffered minor injuries, said public relations officials, and added that rescue teams, including railway personnel, were immediately sent to the site.
Federal Railroad Minister Muhammad Hanif Abbasi, strongly condemned the attack, promising that such acts of terrorism would never deter the resolution of the nation.
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The Jaffar Express had left for Peshawar at 9.00 am and passed through the Spezand train station when the FDE hit. A relief train was sent to the station to transport stranded passengers.
Security forces and police cordoned off the area. The pump removal equipment is cleaning the site, after which passengers will be transferred to Quetta train station through the relief train.
This is not the first time that Jaffar Express has been attacked. A similar attack in November 2024, the lives of 25 people were claimed and left another 50 wounds.
More recently, Jaffar Express escaped by little of an attack on the road to Quetta last week when a pump planted near the road at the Sibi train station shot just after the passenger train passed.
The public relations authorities confirmed the explosion to the media and declared that the explosion occurred near the external signal of the track that links Baluchistan with the rest of the country.
