{"id":70044,"date":"2025-03-11T23:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/11\/militants-hold-train-passengers-hostage-in-balochistan-province-pakistan"},"modified":"2025-03-12T03:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:19:36","slug":"militants-say-182-people-taken-hostage-as-train-hijacked-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70044","title":{"rendered":"Militants say 214 people taken hostage as train hijacked in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baloch Liberation Army claims to have killed 30 military personnel after blowing up tracks in Balochistan region<\/p>\n<p>A separatist militant group in Pakistan\u2019s south-western Balochistan province says it has taken 214 hostages including military personnel after hijacking a train, as the country\u2019s security situation continues to decline sharply.<\/p>\n<p>The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) blew up the tracks and fired on the Jaffar Express train as it travelled through a tunnel in a remote and mountainous area, bringing the train to a halt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/11\/militants-hold-train-passengers-hostage-in-balochistan-province-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baloch Liberation Army claims to have killed 30 military personnel after blowing up tracks in Balochistan regionA separatist militant group in Pakistan\u2019s south-western Balochistan province says it has taken 214 hostages including military personnel aft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70057,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70044\/revisions\/70057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}