Quetta: Militants bombed a train in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province leaving 14 passengers dead and about 50 wounded on Tuesday. The blast comes a day after Pakistani security forces said they had killed 30 separatist militants in one of the biggest clashes in months.
The bomb went off on the Rawalpindi-bound Jaffar, in the town of Sibi, 120 km southeast of the provincial capital of Quetta.
The miliant group United Baluch Army claimed responsibility, reportedly in a text message to Reuters, that the bombing was retaliation for the raids by security forces. The separatists accuse the government of stripping the province’s natural resources and leaving its people mired in poverty.