At Least 26 Killed in Bombing at Pakistan Train Station

The bombing attack happened as around 100 passengers waited for a train from Quetta to Rawalpindi, according to Quetta government official Muhammad Hamza Shafqaat.
Wasim Baig, a local health and law enforcement spokesman, said more than a dozen soldiers and six railway employees were among those killed in the blast.
Early reports suggest that the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA)—a terrorist group—may be responsible for the attack.
The BLA is one of several Baloch ethnonationalism groups that have clashed with the Pakistani central government in recent decades, hoping to break off from the rest of the country.
Balochistan, which touches both Afghanistan and Iran, is Pakistan’s geographically largest province, but also its least populated. The land there is rich in oil and other minerals. Baloch separatist and Islamist militant groups are both active throughout the region.
In August, the BLA carried out multiple coordinated attacks on passengers buses, police, and security forces across Balochistan, killing more than 50 people, mostly civilians.
The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad also condemned the deadly blast.