Seven killed as blast hits Khushhal express in Jacobabad

Dawn.com Published February 16, 2014

KARACHI: A bomb targeting a passenger train near Unnar Wah railway station in Jacobabad killed at least seven people and wounded more than 30 others on Sunday, officials said.

“The Khushhal Khan Khattak express train was on its way to Peshawar from Karachi when it was hit by the blast, killing seven passengers including three children and wounding over 30 others,” a senior local administration official, Sardar Jamali told AFP.

“The death toll in the explosion rose to seven after two injured persons died of their wounds in a hospital in Jacobabad town,” Jamali said.

He added that three passenger wagons were derailed and two of them were severely damaged by the impact of the explosion.

Jamali said that Sunday's bomb was likely an improvised explosive device, while the general manager of Pakistan Railways, Anjum Parvaiz, suggested it was a remote controlled explosion planted on the track.

Parvaiz, who confirmed the incident and casualties, said 800 metres of railway track had been damaged.

A bomb blast in one of the compartments of a train on the same Karachi-bound route last month in the central town of Rajanpur in Punjab province killed three people and wounded 20 others.

Nobody immediately claimed the responsibility for the latest bombing.

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Mansoor

Feb 16, 2014 03:51pm

Wake up Pakistani rulers. We pay taxes for nothing but our security. For God's sake, no more talks with these brutals. We are with you. We have already suffered huge losses of life and property. Even now for their complete eradication, we are ready to sacrifice more.

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asgher

Feb 16, 2014 06:12pm

I would say no matter what goes we must take the peace talk until the last step....if it fails it should be from TTP not us... Otherwise TTP will gain support and sympathy from religious parties and religious minded public and media propagandas...History must say that Pakistani Muslims extended peaceful hand until the end but Talibans wanted no peace. And once the talks fails crush them with swift attacks and get rid of this infestation.

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sabeeh omer

Feb 16, 2014 06:35pm

The Pakistan Government should learn from Sri Lanka when the latter decided to crush the Tamil Liberation Fighters who had been playing havoc with the lives of the ordinary citizens of Sri Lanka just what these so called Talibans are doing. With an army far more superior both numerically and with fire power, I fail to understand what is preventing the government from taking one simple decision and that is to exterminate them. Like Mansoor has said, the entire nation save a few dumb founded politicians and the religious leaders would stand shoulder to shoulder with the armed forces.

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Triumph Truth

Feb 16, 2014 09:25pm

Bro Mansoor, Please do not mix things. These are the works of BLA not TTP. I hope the talks to be successful with the TTP so that govt than do something of the BLA. May Allah ordain peace for Us from the Peace Talks.

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Time has come ! Enough !

Feb 17, 2014 05:00am

@Mansoor: The first message of force to send to these barbarians is to publicly put their apologists in the media and in the national politics in front of the firing squad . Nothing will send them a more powerful signal that enough is enough !

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Mekal Faruki

Feb 17, 2014 06:02am

TTP and their JI, JUI associates have Quran under one arm and knife under the other. TTP murders are evidence they have no intention of stopping attacks. TTP knows under Sharia Law they would be executed. TTP intends to grab government by force and violence to avoid their being prosecuted and executed. Government should execute contingency plans to terminate and exterminate their criminal enterprise.

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