13 killed by Pakistani railway car bomb
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A BOMB ripped through a railway car at a station in southwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 13 people.
The explosion in the town of Sibi also wounded 35 people, said district police chief Gulam Abbas Tarar. He put the death toll at 13, while another official said 14 people were killed.
A little-known separatist group later claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Sibi is in Baluchistan province, Pakistan’s largest region. The train was going from Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, to Rawalpindi, which is next to the capital of Islamabad. Sibi is about 150 kilometers east of Quetta.
The bomb went off after the train reached the Sibi station and passengers were boarding and disembarking, officials said.
Federal Minister for Railways Saad Rafiq told Geo TV that initial reports suggest a woman left explosives and got off the train when it arrived at the station.
Later yesterday, a spokesman for the separatist United Baluch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the bombing and warned of more attacks.
The attack was in retaliation for a military operation on Monday against the group’s activists in the province, said spokesman Mureed Baluch.
Earlier, Rafiq, the federal minister, also said that the blast could have been retribution for Monday’s operation, which killed at least 30 militants.
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