QUETTA: The Pesha\u00adwar-bound Jaffar Express once again escaped an ar\u00ad\u00adm\u00ad\u00aded attack in the Bolan Pass area of Kachhi distr\u00adi\u00ad\u00adct, Balochistan, on Monday.<\/p>\n
It was the sixth attack on the Jaffar Express bet\u00adween Quetta and Sibi during the past one and a half months.<\/p>\n
Railway officials said the Jaffar Express depar\u00adted Quetta for its destination, Peshawar, on schedule, and after crossing Mach station, when it rea\u00adched near Aab-i-Gum, ar\u00ad\u00admed men opened fire on the train from the nearby mountains.<\/p>\n
Security personnel, in\u00ad\u00adcluding Railways Police tr\u00ad\u00ad\u00adavelling on the train, im\u00admediately retaliated and returned fire. How\u00adever, after a brief exch\u00adan\u00ad\u00adge, the assailants escaped from the area.<\/p>\n
Railway officials said all bogies of the Jaffar Express remained safe in the armed attack. \u201cNo cas\u00adualty was reported in the shooting and all passengers travelling on the train remained safe,\u201d a senior railway official said.<\/p>\n
He said the train was stopped after the firing in\u00ad\u00adcident and later procee\u00added to its next destination after security clearance. Security on the railway track was tightened following the armed attack on the train.<\/p>\n
The Jaffar Express has been facing continuous attacks, including a bomb blast on the railway track between Quetta and Jacobabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
QUETTA: The Pesha\u00adwar-bound Jaffar Express once again escaped an ar\u00ad\u00adm\u00ad\u00aded attack in the Bolan Pass area of Kachhi distr\u00adi\u00ad\u00adct, Balochistan, on Monday. It was the sixth attack on the Jaffar Express bet\u00adween Quetta and Sibi during the past one and a half months. Railway officials said the Jaffar Express depar\u00adted Quetta for its destination, Peshawar, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court-and-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13638,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636\/revisions\/13638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}