SIBBI: At least 16 persons were killed and 40 others injured when an explosion occurred in a passenger train at the Railway station in Sibbi district of Balochistan on Tuesday, media reported.
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Update:Railway Minister Saad Rafiq says,Foreign elements involved in #Balochistan terrorism,announced Rs. 0.5 Mn for heirs of blast victims.
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The reports said that the blast took place inside a bogie of Jaffar Express which was standing at the Sibbi Railway station while it was going to Rawalpindi from Quetta. Three bogies were damaged in the blast.
A police official Muhammad Tahir said that militants targeted the passenger train through an improvised explosive device (IED) at the Sibbi Railway station.
The injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Sibbi.
