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Bystanders help to evacuate an injured passenger on a stretcher at the Mach railway station, which has been turned into a makeshift hospital, after Pakistani security forces freed nearly 80 passengers following a security operation against armed militants who ambushed the train in the remote mountainous area, in Mach, southwestern Balochistan province on March 11, 2025. Pakistani troops freed dozens of train passengers taken hostage by armed militants of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a separatist group behind rising violence in the province which borders Afghanistan and Iran, after gunmen forced a train to a halt in a remote, mountainous area of Balochistan province in the afternoon of on March 11, 2025. (Photo by Banaras KHAN / AFP) (Photo by BANARAS KHAN/AFP via Getty Images)