The Pakistani army announces the killing of 33 militants … and the liberation of the hostages of the train

Yesterday (Wednesday), the Pakistani security forces stormed a train kidnapped by separatist militants and held hostages, in a confrontation that lasted a whole day and ended with the fall of all 33 kidnappers.

The army spokesman, Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, explained that all 33 militants were killed, explaining that 440 people were on the train kidnapped by the militants belonging to the so -called Balochistan Liberation Army, which adopted the killing of 50 passengers.

Chaudhry indicated that the army managed to liberate a large number of people, including women and children, explaining that the liberation process was carried out very carefully.

The army spokesman said: No civilian was killed in the operation, adding: The security forces have succeeded in purifying the train from all the perpetrators.

A Pakistani security source had said in press statements that separatist militants from the Baluchistan region blew up a railway line yesterday, and threw missiles on the “Jaafar Express” train, while on his way to Peshawar in the Khyberbon Bakhtoun Khwa from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan.

The gunmen threatened to execute the hostages after a 48 -hour deadline if the authorities did not respond to their demands to release political detainees, activists and missing from the Baluch saying that the army arrested them, and according to a security official, between 70 and 80 attackers kidnapped the train.

In the past months, the militants have intensified their activities using new methods of large numbers of deaths and injured and targeting the Pakistani army.

It is noteworthy that the Balochistan Liberation Army group is the largest among several armed ethnic groups fighting the Pakistani government in the Baluchistan region rich in minerals and adjacent to Afghanistan and Iran.