At least four people were injured as the explosion derailed, with six bogies in Jaffar Express near Spezand Town near Dasht Tehsil in Mastung district of Bal Road, officials said.
Over the past few years, as terrorist attacks have increased, Bal Luzhi Province has seen a series of events where militants blow up train tracks, targeting the province’s transportation infrastructure.
Dr. Waxeem Baig, spokesperson for the Bal Road Provincial Health Bureau and Quetta Civil Hospital, told dawn.com: “Three people were injured in the explosion and have been transferred to the trauma center of a civil hospital, while the injured child has been taken to the United Military Hospital.”
Muhammad Kashif, public relations officer of the Quetta branch of Pakistan Railway, told dawn.com Explosives in the town of Spetzand destroyed a railway track and derailed six bogies.
“The train was from Peshawar to Quetta, with 270 passengers on board,” he said, adding that a relief train was sent from Quetta after the explosion, and a group of personnel, rescue trucks and private cranes were also rushed to simulate the rescue operation.
He said work on repairing railway tracks and removing bogies will begin tomorrow in the daytime, while an investigation into the incident was conducted.
Kashif said security forces had blocked the area and launched a search operation.
one Similar events It happened last month when six bogies derailed near the same location.
The incident happened three days later when Quetta-based Jaffar Express nearly escaped the Sibi disaster in Bal Luzhi Province, and a bomb exploded near the track after the passenger train passed.
In another near-failure incident on July 24, a powerful explosion swept the Quetta-Sippi Railway sector, damaging Bolan Mail’s transformation.
The Jaffar Express train in Sukur, Sindh Province on July 28 was initially attributed to an explosion, even in the media run by the government, but the Ministry of Railways later said technical faults were the cause.
In June, a powerful explosion of a remote-controlled explosive device installed on the rails derailed four bogies of Jacobad’s Jaffer Express. No one was injured in the incident.
In April, three trains from Karachi to Quetta stopped at Jacobbad Railway Station due to safety reasons.
Train services between Quetta and other parts of the country resumed on March 27 due to an unprecedented hijacking of the Jafars Express in Peshawar earlier that month.
The train, which runs from Quetta to Peshawar, was hijacked on March 11 near the Sibi area of Bal Luzhi Province, killing 21 passengers and 4 security personnel. The military said that during the two-day purge, “all 33 terrorists” were neutralized.
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