Summary Four bodies (wagons) of the train derailed after the blast.
DERA MURAD JAMALI (Web Desk) - A bomb hit a passenger train in Pakistan s restive southwest on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 17, officials said.
The device, apparently planted on the railway track, exploded when the train approached a station in Naseer Abad district of the insurgency hit southwestern Baluchistan province.
"It was a bomb blast, the target was the passenger train. At least six people have been killed," provincial home secretary Asad Gilani told AFP, adding that more than 17 others were wounded in the blast.
Zafar Shah Bukhari, a senior official in the area, confirmed the bomb attack and death toll.
Bukhari said the Jaffar Express was travelling from Rawalpindi to Quetta, the main town of Baluchistan province.
"We have taken the dead bodies and injured to the nearby hospital," Bukhari said, adding that the condition of six of the injured was critical.
The explosion derailed the train, Bukhari added.
Few weeks back, a bomb exploded on a passenger train in central Pakistan, killing a toddler and wounding 13 others.
The device on the Shalimar Express from the eastern city of Lahore to Karachi went off as it passed through fields near the town of Toba Tek Singh in Punjab province.
Pakistan is battling a homegrown insurgency and faces near-daily bombings and shootings in the troubled northwest, but attacks on the railway are relatively rare.
A bomb near the waiting lounge for the luxury Lahore-Karachi Business Express train last year killed two people.
