Pakistan Separatists Derail Passenger Train With IED

Footage released by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a separatist group operating in the Pakistan Baluchistan region, shows an improvised explosive device (IED) attack on a train they claimed was carrying Pakistani troops on Jan. 18, 2022.

The BLA stated the attack killed multiple and wounded multiple, however local reports suggest that five people were injured and taken to the hospital.

While the train may have been carrying Pakistani troops, the Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qaddos Bizenjo condemned the attack, claiming it was a passenger train also carrying civilians.

The various Baluchistan insurgent groups are fighting for independence from Pakistan as they claim the Pakistan government offers their ethnic group no representation within the government, while extracting resources from their mineral rich province and selling out their ancestral lands to Chinese investors.