A group fired on a passenger train traveling through Pakistan's Balochistan province. A separatist group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Separatist militants blew up a railway track and opened fire on a passenger train in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday (March 11), taking dozens of hostages and battling security forces conducting a rescue operation,

Three people were killed and about 100 hostages freed by Pakistani troops after armed militants attacked a train carrying more than 450 passengers in the country’s southwestern Balochistan province. It was not immediately clear how many people remained on board the train as security forces continued operations overnight.