We ended the confrontation with the kidnappers of the “Jaafar Express” train

Today, Wednesday, the Pakistani army ended a confrontation with separatist militants who kidnapped a passenger train in the southwestern Balochistan region and detained hundreds of people hostage.

The Pakistani army said that the security forces stormed today, Wednesday, a train kidnapped by separatist militants and held hostages in a confrontation that lasted a full day and ended with the killing of all 33 kidnappers.

A security source said that separatist gunmen from the Balochistan region blew up on Tuesday a railway line and threw rockets at the Jaafar Express train while on his way to Peshawar in the Khyberbon of Khatten Khawa from Kuetta, the capital of Balochistan.

Army spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that 21 hostages and all 33 militants were killed. He added that 440 people were on the train.

“We liberated a large number of people today, including women and children,” Chuoderi said, and it was very careful that he had not killed any civilians in the operation.

He added that the security forces succeeded in purifying the train from “all the perpetrators”, and said that three soldiers were guarding the path were killed in the attack that started on Tuesday.

The prime minister of the region, Sarvraz Boujti, told a local council that the forces had killed all the militants who participated in the attack.

Today, and before the army’s announcement, the Balochistan Liberation Army said it had killed 50 passengers.

The group threatened to start the execution of hostages after a 48 -hour period has passed if the authorities did not respond to their demands to release political commentators, activists and missing from the Baluch saying that the army kidnapped them.

A prominent government official had previously stated that between 70 and 80 attackers kidnapped the train.