A railway track in the Dasht area was hit by a powerful explosion on Tuesday, targeting the Jaffar Express traveling from Peshawar to Quetta. That incident had come just three days after a Quetta-bound Jaffar Express narrowly escaped a disaster in Sibi, where a bomb planted near the track exploded just after the passenger train passed. In another near-miss incident on July 24, a powerful explosion ripped through the Quetta-Sibi rail section, damaging a bogie of the Bolan Mail. A July 28 derailment of the Jaffar Express train in Sukkur was initially attributed to an explosion — even by government-run media — but the Ministry of Railways later said a technical fault was the cause. In June, a powerful explosion of a remotely controlled explosive device fitted to rail tracks caused four bogies of the Jaffer Express to derail in Jacobabad.