Pakistan train kidnapping: Baloch Group claims responsibility, threatens to execute hostage

The Baloch Liberation Army said in a statement in a statement on Tuesday that the Jaffer Express has been taken as hostage passengers, which was first confiscated in Pakistan today, saying that if Pakistani forces started an operation, it would execute the prisoners.

Jaffer Express, with some 400 passengers on the board in nine bogies, was from Quetta to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the South -West Balochistan province of Pakistan, when the BLA set fire to it, injuring the driver and took the passengers as hostages.

In a statement, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) stated that he/she has completely removed the ground attack of the Pakistani Army after the seizure of the Jaffer Express. After the intense clashes, Pakistani ground troops were forced to retreat, but continue to stop without air strikes from helicopters and drones. “

“The BLA issues a final warning: If aerial bombing is not stopped immediately, all 100+ hostages will be executed within the next hour. Majeed brigade, stose, fateh squad, and zirb unit fighter aircraft are actively engaged in counterers, and any further military infiltration will result in consequences,”

“More than 100 enemy personnel remain in custody. The occupied forces still have a chance to stop the airstrikes and save their men, otherwise the Pakistani Army will bear full responsibility for the execution of all hostages, “statement by Jiyind Baloch, spokesman of the Baloch Liberation Army Reid.

Local media of Pakistan today said earlier that the Jaffer Express train was from Quetta to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in South -West Balochistan province of Pakistan, when it came under intensive firing in Balochistan.

Local media reported that more than 450 passengers and employees are expected to be held hostage.

Government spokesperson Shahid Rind said that the Government of Balochistan has taken emergency measures and all institutions have been mobilized to deal with the situation, the government spokesman Shahid Rind said, according to Dawn.

According to Eri News, the driver of the train suffered serious injuries. Pakistan’s SAMAA TV said that according to Rawa officials, no contact has been established with 450 passengers and employees of the 9-Kocch Jafar Express, the train sent Quetta at 9 am.