“There were seven buses in the convoy which was heading to Taftan (on the Iranian border). At Noshki, a car laden with explosives hit one of the buses,“ said Mohammed Zafar, a police official in Noshki, a town in Balochistan.
The attack was claimed by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), the main separatist group in the province, which said the bombing was carried out by its suicide attack branch.
The railway attack drew attention to the spiral of violence in Balochistan, which also borders Afghanistan and where separatists accuse outsiders of plundering the province's natural resources.
The northwestern province has seen a rise in attacks by the Pakistani Taliban since the Afghan Taliban -- with which it shares a common ideology and lineage -- returned to power in Kabul in 2021.
According to an AFP count, since January 1 around 130 people, the majority members of the security forces, have been killed in violence carried out by armed groups fighting against the state -- mainly in the west bordering Afghanistan.
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