A bomb blast killed 25 people in Railway station. A suspected suicide blast by an ethnic militant group rocked a crowded railway station in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan region this morning,killing 25 people and injuring 46 others. The victims included at least 14 soldiers, the police said. CCTV footage showed dozens of people waiting on the platform when the blast ripped through Quetta’s main railway station.
Bodies were seen scattered across the platform and the roof was blown away. There was blood everywhere as rescue workers went through abandoned luggage to find survivors.
The blast occurred when the Jaffer Express was about to depart for Peshawar, said a senior police official, adding that it seemed to be a suicide blast. Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), an ethnic militant group in the region, has claimed responsibility for the blast.
Reports suggest the explosion occurred at the railway station’s booking office. Provincial government spokesperson Shahid Rind said law enforcement teams immediately secured the area and took the injured to the civil hospital in Quetta.
