“He confused us for the dead”: the driver of the train in Pakistan remembers the siege of 36 hours terror

The Jaffar Express driver and reminded the terror hours when the militants in Balochistan’s release army attacked the train that claimed lives of 21 civilians and 4 soldiers.
Speaking after the attack, Loco-Pilot Amjad described the way the BL militants detonated an explosive under the train’s engine, which led to the train derailments.
“Terrorists violated the train by breaking the windows, but they thought we were dead,” AMJAD told Reuters.
“As soon as the train stopped, the Balocharitan terrorists release the army (bla) launched an attack,” he added.
Meanwhile, one of the passengers released and remembered how the attackers took hostages after the explosion.
“They kept us in the weapon, but the commanders risked their own lives to save us,” he said, adding that the courage of the military man forced them during the ordeal.
Pakistan’s army declared the end of the Jaffar Express hostage crisis, after a two -day stand.
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Pakistan’s army, on Wednesday night, said that all 33 attackers were killed, and over 340 train passengers were released after a fierce operation in the south -the Balochistan Vest, where the train was ambushed earlier.
However, the release army from Balochizan (Bla) rejected the request of the military in Pakistan and stated that he still holds hostages and remains engaged in fighting for the security forces.
Bla to accuse the army of misleading the public and said that the hostages claimed that they were saved by Pakistan’s forces were actually released by Bla.
“Now, when the state has abandoned its hostages to die, it will also bear the responsibility for their death,” said the spokesman of Blas, Jeeyand Baloch, in a statement.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Pakistani Shehbaz Sharif visited Balochizan where he revised the security situation and expressed solidarity with the victims of the attack. He condemned the growing threat of militanity, calling it an existential danger to Pkistan.
“Pakistan’s peace and prosperity are related to the eradication of terrorism. There will be no prosperity without peace, “he said at a high level meeting.
The figures with death fee vary, the military reporting that “21 innocent hostages” and four soldiers were killed in the operation.
However, a Balochizer rail official said that 25 bodies were taken from the scene and transported to the nearby Mach city. “The deceased have been identified as 19 military passengers, a police and a railway official, while four bodies are still identified,” an anonymous rail official told AFP.