Amjad Yaseen, the driver of the Jaffar Express, has been confirmed safe following a terrorist hijacked the train while it was travelling from Quetta to Peshawar on March 11.
Yaseen, a resident of Changa Manga’s Chak No 17, survived by diving to the engine floor for cover when militants opened fire and lay there for about 27 hours to avoid detection.
Initially, there were false reports circulating online claiming he had lost his life in the attack, but Yaseen personally contacted his brother to assure him that he was unharmed.
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Amjad Yaseen’s family, while speaking to the BBC earlier, said that he had been a train driver for 24 years and survived when explosives targeted another train he was driving about eight years ago.
The attack was carried out by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which claimed responsibility for derailing the train and taking hostages.
The clearance operation launched after the Jaffar Express train was attacked and hijacked, has been completed, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said on Wednesday.
He added that all terrorists present there have been killed.
“On March 11 in Bolan, terrorists targeted a railroad track around 1 pm and blew it up with a blast and stopped the Jaffer Express. According to railway officials, the train had 440 passengers,” DG ISPR said while speaking to news anchor Kamran Shahid on Dunya News show ‘On the Front.’
He also elaborated that units from the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), Special Services Group (SSG), army and Frontier Corps (FC) took part in the complex operation.
“The terrorists used hostages, including women and children, as human shields. The recovery operation was immediately started,” he added.
However, he added, that before the clearance operation, 21 passengers were martyred by the terrorists.
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