Summary The train was travelling from Quetta to Lahore.
SIBI (Web Desk) – A passenger was killed and four others injured when a passenger train hit a bomb planted on a railway track in insurgency-hit southwestern Balochistan province on Tuesday morning, Dunya News reported.
The bomb exploded when the Lahore-bound Jaffar Express train coming from Quetta reached Bala Nari area. A three-feet section of the track was destroyed by the bombing, which hit the second carriage.
The injured were taken to hospital in the town of Sibbi 25 kilometres north of the blast site.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but separatists demanding greater autonomy have been waging an insurgency for years and the province is also riven by sectarian strife and violence.
The low-level separatist insurgency in Balochistan is one of the chronic security problems in Pakistan. Several attacks on trains, railway tracks and other installations have taken place in the province during the past few years.
Earlier on January 28, two bogies of the Jaffar Express were partially damaged in an explosion near railway tracks in Mithri area of Sibi district.No loss of life was reported in the incident.
On November 1 last year, three passengers of a train were killed and 11 others injured in a bomb blast on a railway track near Dasht area in Mastung district. The Jaffar express was travelling from Quetta to the garrison city of Rawalpindi in central Punjab province.
The banned United Baloch Army (UBA) had claimed responsibility for the blast.
On 8th April 2014, fourteen passengers were killed and about 50 wounded when militants bombed the Rawalpindi-bound Jaffar Express in the town of Sibi.
