VIDEO: Pakistan Train Hijack, Rescued Passengers Recount Horror Of Insurgents' Assault | Balochistan

A number of hostages were released late Tuesday after Pakistani insurgents attacked a passenger train carrying several hundred people through a tunnel. The insurgents claimed they had taken more than 100 hostages. Security officials said the attackers blew up the railroad track in restive southwestern Balochistan province and exchanged fire with security guards aboard the train while using women and children as human shields. The train was traveling from the provincial capital of Quetta to the northern city of Peshawar when it came under attack in Bolan district, government spokesman Shahid Rind said, calling it “an act of terrorism."