Jaffar Express hijack update: 16 militants killed by security forces,104 hostages freed!

After a passenger train was commandeered by zealots in Pakistan's Balochistan  fiefdom on Tuesday, the country's security forces have plugged down at least 16 hitchhikers, while 104 passengers were saved. The Jaffar Express, carrying around 400 passengers in nine  bugbears, was travelling from Quetta to Peshawar when fortified men associated with the Balochistan Liberation Army( BLA)  interdicted it in a lair near the mountainous terrain of Gudalar and Piru Kunri on Tuesday  autumn.

Clean-up operation will continue until all passengers are  saved

In an ongoing gun battle with the  zealots the security forces managed to  deliver 104 passengers, including women and children,  reportedly quoting sources.  The report added that the clean-up operation will continue until all passengers are  saved from the train. According to the sources, the saved passengers, including 58 men, 31 women, and 15 children, were  transferred to Mach( a  city in the Kachhi  quarter in the Balochistan  fiefdom of Pakistan) by another train. "The  zealots have now formed small groups to try to escape in the dark, but the security forces have  girdled the lair and the remaining passengers will also be  saved soon" sources said.  

zealots had commandeered the train

 The security forces had  before managed to  deliver 80 passengers, including 43 men, 26 women, and 11 children, said Balochistan government  prophet Shahid Rind. Though the authorities have n't given any  further details, Rind said the security forces, including military  colors, had reached the rough terrain where the lair is located shortly after  road authorities were advised to the train being stopped in the lair. The Pakistan media reported  violent blasting and explosions near the lair, where the  zealots had commandeered the train. 

Pakistan Railroads sets up an exigency office 

Rana Muhammad Dilawar, the  quarter police officer in the area where the train was stopped, said there were around four to five government  officers on the train. before, the BLA had claimed to have taken scores of security  labor force hostage,  commodity that the authorities have not  verified. Pakistan Railroads sets up an  exigency office. Pakistan Railroads have set up an  exigency  office at the Peshawar and Quetta Railway stations to help frantic cousins and  musketeers trying to get some information about their loved ones. 

This is not the first attack on a train in the region

 Pakistan Railroads had  proceeded  train services to Peshawar from Quetta after a  suspense of  further than a month and a half. Tariq Mahmood, a  elderly functionary of Peshawar Railway Station, said that people shouldn't pay attention to rumors on social media and  else.This is not the first attack on a train in the region in recent times. Just in November last time, a  self-murder bomber killed 26 people and injured 62 others at the Quetta  road station, after which several services were suspended by the Railroads.