Pakistan prime minister meets with 300 freed train hostages and rescue troops
by Doug Cunningham · UPIMarch 13 (UPI) -- Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif went to Balochistan province Thursday to meet with 300 survivors and the troops who rescued them after a Baloch Liberation Army train attack that began Tuesday.
During the BLA attack and survivor rescue 21 civilians and four Pakistani soldiers were killed. Thirty-three BLA fighters were killed as troops rescued train passengers who had been taken hostage.
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