Several Feared Killed in Pakistan's Quetta Train Blast; More Than 20 Injured

Several people are feared dead after a blast tore through a shuttle train near Chaman Phatak in Quetta on Sunday morning.

State-run APP, citing railway authorities, said the shuttle train was heading from Quetta Cantonment to the railway station when it was targeted near Chaman Phatak shortly after 8 am.

The nature of the explosion could not be immediately ascertained.

Confirming the blast, Pakistan Railways said rescue trucks and a relief train were dispatched to the site to assist in emergency operations.

The explosion derailed three coaches, including the locomotive, while two coaches overturned, APP reported.

Security forces immediately cordoned off the area and launched a rescue operation, it added.

Railways Minister Hanif Abbasi condemned the attack as a cowardly act of terrorism, adding that it would not weaken the nation’s resolve against militancy.

Slamming terrorists as “enemies of humanity”, the minister asserted they would be “brought to a disgraceful end”.

Source: Dawn News Agency