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A bomb blast hit a shuttle train carrying Pakistani security personnel and their families in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday (May 24), officials said.

The explosion killed at least 24 people and injured around 70.

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00:00A bomb blast hit a shuttle train carrying Pakistani security personnel and their families
00:05in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said, in the latest major attack
00:11claimed by separatist militants. The explosion killed at least 24 people and injured around 70.
00:18One resident who witnessed the blast, Mohammed Khan, said he was just steps away from the tracks
00:24when the explosion occurred, adding that he could not believe how he survived as the blast was so
00:29huge right in front of him.
00:47The attack was the latest in a series of strikes on trains, security forces and infrastructure
00:53in the mineral-rich province that borders Iran and Afghanistan, where Pakistan has launched
00:58counterinsurgency operations after some of the deadliest violence in years.
01:04Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif condemned what he called a heinous bomb explosion in a post
01:09on social media website X. He expressed condolences for the victims' families and said the nation
01:16stood with the people of Balochistan.
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