Pakistan railway bomb blast kills at least 25
Newshour
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🗓️ 9 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A separatist group in western Pakistan says it carried out a suicide bombing at a railway station which killed at least 25 people and injured dozens more. The separatist militant group, Balochistan Liberation Army, said the blast at Quetta station targeted an army unit.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. We are coming to you live from London. I'm Rob Young. And we start in Pakistan where a powerful bomb blast at a railway station has killed 25 people and injured more than 40 others. The authorities say a suicide bomber detonated their device as passengers were waiting to board a morning train in Quetta, |
| 0:25.9 | the capital of Balochistan in the southwest. |
| 0:29.0 | Video footage shows scenes of chaos with bodies lying among the debris |
| 0:33.0 | and part of the station roof hanging down. |
| 0:36.4 | Abdul Jabbar, one of the people injured in the attack, |
| 0:39.2 | described what happened. |
| 0:43.4 | I was going inside the station after buying a train ticket. |
| 0:46.6 | After two minutes, as I reached inside on the platform, |
| 0:49.6 | there was a blast. |
| 0:50.9 | Two more people who were with me got injured. |
| 0:53.3 | There were more people with me. God knows what |
| 0:55.6 | happened to them. Well, the separatist group, the Balochistan Liberation Army, said it was responsible |
| 1:01.1 | for the blast. The commissioner of Quetta Hamza Shafakat told reporters that the militants must be defeated. |
| 1:11.0 | The terrorists attacked the soft targets through frustration. |
| 1:15.6 | They frequently attack soft targets. |
| 1:17.8 | When their people are arrested, they also attack in retaliation. |
| 1:21.7 | We all have to fight this war. |
| 1:23.5 | We are resilient, which you can see through our responses. |
| 1:26.7 | All our teams reach the victims and are trying to save as many lives as they can. |
| 1:33.3 | Well, the BBC's correspondent in Pakistan, Caroline Davis joins us now from the capital, Islamabad. |
| 1:39.1 | Caroline, just give us the latest information on this attack. |
| 1:42.6 | I've been speaking to one of the police investigating officers |
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