How Baloch militants killed the driver and ruined the railway track when they hijacked the Pakistan Jafar Express train

Pakistani forces have rescued 155 of the 450 passengers from the Jafar Express train that was hijacked in the southwest of the country, and the government said an operation was underway to rescue dozens still held hostage. “A full-scale operation” to free train passengers taken hostage by Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) militants, including suicide bombers, is scheduled to begin on Wednesday.

The militants blew up a railway track and opened fire on the train on Tuesday as it travelled from Quetta, Balochistan's capital city, to Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. "The train was stopped by armed men in Tunnel No 8," said Controller of Railways Muhammad Kashif in a statement after the train was trapped inside a tunnel after being fired upon.

The BLA militants took control of the train after engaging in gunfire with security personnel, wounding the driver. The Baloch militants then detonated the railway track on Tunnel Number 8, causing the train to derail.