DHAKA: An explosion struck a Quetta-bound Jaffar Express on Monday killing four persons and injuring 16 others in Pakistan.

The train which departed from Rawalpindi was passing through Dera Murad Jamali district of the restive Balochistan province when the blast occurred causing damage to at least four bogies of the passenger train.

Emergency and rescue team were dispatched to the site.

Moreover, security personnel reached the site and cordoned off the area as a probe into the incident went underway.

Further details regarding the blast were not available till the filing of this report.

Source: Dawn
BDST: 1230 HRS, OCT 21, 2013
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