Asia-Pacific

Blast hits railway in southwest Pakistan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-02-24 14:30

ISLAMABAD - A freight train was derailed Thursday when a section of the rail track was blown up in Chagai, a remote district in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, local sources said.

No one was hurt but four railway cars of the train were overturned after the railway was hit in an explosion planted by some unknown militants at the town of Dalbandin, locals said.