The Pakistani army says that 300 hostages from the train

The Pakistan Army says it released more than 300 hostages from a passenger train seized by the militants in Balochistan Province on Tuesday.

A military spokesman said 33 fighters were killed during the operation.

The military spokesman said that one of them is a civil hostility and four military personnel were killed by the Blash Liberation Army (BLA) before the operation began. These numbers have not been checked by the BBC.

The army continues the search in the area to exclude any remaining threats.

There were approximately 440 passengers on the train when they were attacked, according to the spokesperson for the army.

Security officials were quoted as saying that some of the militants had left the train, with an unknown number of passengers with them in the surrounding mountainous area.

The spokesman said the army was working to find passengers who fled and fled to the surrounding area during the attack. It is not clear that the number of passengers who have not been calculated.

The Pakistani authorities – as well as many Western countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States – assigned BLA as a terrorist organization.

BLA is one of the rebel groups that calls for either autonomy or independence in Balochistan, the largest province in Pakistan.

They accuse Islamabad of exploiting the province rich in mineral resources with their neglect as well. In the past, they attacked military camps, railway stations and trains – but this is the first time that they kidnapped a train.

The officials said that at least 100 people from the train were members of the security forces.

The gunmen threatened to kill the hostages if the authorities did not release political prisoners within 48 hours, according to local reports.

During the attack, the gunmen detonated a section of the tracks and opened fire on the train near a mountain tunnel.

Eyewitnesses described “scenes of the Day of Resurrection” on the train when the attack is revealed, With the passenger, Isaac Nour, he tells BBC: “We held our breath throughout the shooting, we don’t know what will happen next.”

Officials have had difficulty communicating with passengers at the time of the attack, because the remote area does not contain online coverage or mobile phone.

Some of the passengers who managed to get off the train at late on Tuesday evening for about four hours to reach the next railway station.

Among them was Muhammad Ashraf, who was traveling from Quetta to Lahore to visit his family.

“We got to the station with great difficulty, because we were tired and there were children and women with us,” he told the BBC.

Helicopters and hundreds of forces have been deployed to save the hostages. More than 100 passengers were released on Wednesday morning.

The kidnapping lasted more than 30 hours. The information related to the attack and the subsequent rescue process have been controlled.

An army spokesman said that anyone involved in the attack would be presented to justice.

Additional reports from Azadeh Moshiri.