Bombing derails passenger train in SW Pakistan, injures 15

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say a bomb planted on the tracks by suspected militants derailed a passenger train in a remote area in the country’s southwest, injuring at least 15 people. The officials say the train was passing through the district of Bolan in Baluchistan province when the bomb went off. A district administrator says rescuers have transported the injured to a nearby hospital, and engineers are repairing the damaged rail tracks. Hours later, a separatist group claimed responsibility for the attack. For over a decade, Baluchistan has been the scene of a low-level insurgency by ethnic Baluch separatists seeking autonomy from the Islamabad government or outright independence.