A Pakistani soldier examines a passenger train after shootout in southwest Pakistan. (File photo)
Unknown militants have attacked a train in Pakistanâ„¢s Sindh province, killing one passenger and injuring four others, Press TV reports.
The assault took place on Friday after gunmen opened fire on a Karachi-bound passenger train near Kotri town of Sindh province, leaving a child dead and four people injured.
In another incident on the same day, four people were killed and more than 20 others wounded after an attack on a train in the restive province of Balochistan in southwest Pakistan.
The train was traveling from the provincial capital Quetta to the city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad.
Pakistani security officials said heavily-armed militants fired rockets at the train in a mountainous area in Balochistan’s Bolan district.
Security forces cordoned off the area and the injured were taken to the hospital.
Police authorities and Pakistan Railways officials have launched an investigation into the deadly incident.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the assaults, but the Pakistani government often blames the pro-Taliban militants for similar attacks in the violence-wracked country.
Friday’s attacks comes less than two weeks after two people lost their lives and several others suffered injuries when a bomb exploded on the Shalimar Express passenger train as it traveled south from Lahore to Karachi.
Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Pakistan entered an alliance with the US in the so-called war on terror.
Thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.
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Republished from: Press TV