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Train blast kills 30 in southwest Pakistan MP Fierce gun battles between tribal rebels and Pakistani troops in the troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan have killed at least 30 people and wounded more than 70, an official said Friday. Fighting lasted all day Thursday after the heavily-armed clansmen, who want more autonomy and increased benefits from the area's natural resources, ambushed a convoy of paramilitary Frontier Corps soldiers, officials said. Separately, railway officials said twin bomb blasts ripped through two trains travelling in opposite directions, killing one person and injuring a total of nine others. The first bomb hidden in a toilet went off in a carriage of a passenger train heading towards the provincial capital Quetta Friday, killing one person and injuring five. A second bomb exploded on the Chiltan Express headed in the opposite direction towards the major eastern city of Lahore, wounding four people, said Mohammed Shoaib, controller for Pakistan Railways based in Quetta. A shadowy group called the Baluchistan Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for some of the earlier blasts targeting main railway lines in the province. The province has been gripped by a sporadic tribal revolt for more than a year but the violence surged after the January rape of a 32 year-old doctor at Pakistan's largest gas field at Sui in Baluchistan. |
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