Pakistan train hijack LIVE: Militants hold 450 train passengers hostage in Balochistan

The attack occurred in the Bolan district as the train was traveling from the provincial capital of Quetta to the northern city of Peshawar, said government spokesman Shahid Rind.

After the driver was wounded, the train came to a stop in a deserted area, Rind said and added that reinforcements were heading to Bolan to respond to the attack. He had no further details and the situation with the train and its passengers was not immediately clear.

“The passengers are being held hostage, and the driver has been injured.”

The train had left Quetta for Peshawar, in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – a more than 30-hour journey – at around 9.00 a.m..

An emergency has been imposed at hospitals in Sibi, according to the government official.

-AFP and AP