Suicide bombing on Pakistan train kills 23, BLA claims responsibility

At least 23 people killed and over 70 wounded, including 20 in critical condition; two train cars overturned and caught fire.

On a Sunday afternoon in Quetta, Pakistan, a passenger train became the site of a suicide bombing that killed at least 23 people and wounded more than 70 others, as a vehicle packed with explosives was detonated alongside the railway track. The Baloch Liberation Army, a separatist militant group long at odds with Pakistan's central government over the resource-rich province of Balochistan, claimed responsibility for the attack. The violence is a reminder that declarations of progress in counterinsurgency efforts do not always quiet the deeper grievances that sustain them — and that ordinary pe

Suicide bombing on Pakistan train kills 23, BLA claims responsibility

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