At Least Seven Killed in Pakistan Train Bombing

Caused it to derail

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A passenger train derailed Monday in Pakistan's resistive Baluchistan province when a bomb detonated next to it, killing at least seven people, officials said.

The "Jaffar Express" train was traveling from Rawalpindi to Quetta when the attack occurred mid-morning, about 300 miles from its destination.

Riaz Ahmed, a railway police officer in Quetta, said the bomb had been planted on the tracks. But Pakistan's railway minister, Khwaja Saad Rafiq, told local media that he and other authorities are also investigating if a suicide bomber could be to blame.

Seven passengers, including three brothers traveling together, were killed, and at least a dozen others were injured, Ahmed said. Four train cars flipped when the bomb detonated, he added.