Who are the BLA – the group behind Pakistan’s deadly train hijack?

found 2025 › Mar › 12 (Wed) @ 20:21 UTC

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The group's train attack is the latest in a series of increasingly audacious assaults it has launched.

Pakistan operation to free hostages after train hijacking ends with dozens killed

found 2025 › Mar › 12 (Wed) @ 20:21 UTC

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Security services claim to have rescued about 190 people being held by Baloch Liberation Army in remote area

An operation to rescue hundreds of people taken hostage when a train was hijacked by a sepa…

Pakistan military fights on in operation to free hundreds of hostages on train

found 2025 › Mar › 12 (Wed) @ 14:22 UTC

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Government says about 130 still held after Balochistan militants blew up a railway line and hijacked train

An operation to rescue hundreds of people taken hostage when a train was hijacked by a separa…

'Hundreds' of hijacked train hostages are still being held by gunmen after dozens were freed - with children and women seen sheltering at station

found 2025 › Mar › 12 (Wed) @ 07:45 UTC

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The separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) blew up a railway track to trap a passenger train inside a tunnel before exchanging gunfire with security guards on board.

Militants say 214 people taken hostage as train hijacked in Pakistan

found 2025 › Mar › 11 (Tue) @ 19:02 UTC

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Baloch Liberation Army claims to have killed 30 military personnel after blowing up tracks in Balochistan region

A separatist militant group in Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province says it ha…

Militants say 182 people taken hostage as train hijacked in Pakistan

found 2025 › Mar › 11 (Tue) @ 16:12 UTC

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Baloch Liberation Army claims to have killed 20 soldiers after blowing up tracks in south-western Balochistan region

A separatist militant group in Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province says i…

Gunmen say they will BLOW UP hijacked train and execute all hostages if authorities do not meet their demands

found 2025 › Mar › 11 (Tue) @ 16:12 UTC

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The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) held up the train and took some 400 passengers, one Pakistani official said, with around 200 of those held by the attackers thought to have been freed.