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A passenger train carrying hundreds of people was attacked by armed militants in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, forcing it to halt. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for the assault on the Jaffar Express, which was en route from Quetta to Peshawar. According to reports, the militants bombed the track before storming the train in the remote Sibi district. Pakistani authorities confirmed that at least three people, including the train driver, sustained injuries in the attack. Security forces have been deployed to the scene. The BLA claims to have taken several passengers, including security personnel, hostage and has issued...

The police spokesman said authorities did not yet know the motive behind the attack that injured six on Saturday in the canton of St. Gallen, but did not thought terrorism unlikely. "A terrorism background still seems very, very far-fetched," the spokesman said.

FALLUJAH, Iraq - Insurgents attacked a freight train with an improvised bomb Thursday, setting four containers on fire and setting off a spree of looting by residents, witnesses said. The attack occurred on a rail line four miles west of Fallujah against a train that carries freight, mostly for the U.S. military, from this city to Haditha, about 135 kilometers to the northwest. The engineer escaped injury and fled the scene, witnesses said. As soon as the flames subsided, local residents swarmed over the wreckage, carrying off computers, tents, bottled water and anything else they could carry away.