Insurgents who attacked passenger train killed 21 hostages, Pakistan army says

Injured passengers were taken to hospital (AP)

Insurgents who attacked a passenger train in Pakistan killed 21 hostages, the military said on Wednesday, while security forces rescued more than 300 others and killed all 50 of the assailants.

The military spokesman, Lt Gen Ahmad Sharif, told local media that three soldiers who had been guarding the track were also killed in the attack, which began Tuesday in restive Balochistan province.