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Separatist militants drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a paramilitary convoy in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people and wounding more than 30, officials said on Sunday. The Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack in Noshki district, Balochistan. Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack, which comes amid a growing security crisis in regions bordering Afghanistan. The BLA had previously hijacked the Jaffar Express on Tuesday in a remote Balochistan mountain pass, detonating train tracks in an attack that killed 31 soldiers and civilians, according to the military. The separatist Baloch Liberation Army, which claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack, released a statement saying its fighters had escaped with 214 hostages and since executed all of them, without giving any evidence to back that up. The separatist group released a statement in response to the army, saying it had killed all the hostages in its custody. Pakistani officials have accused the group of making exaggerated claims in the past. The BLA is the largest and strongest of several ethnic Baloch insurgent groups which have been fighting for decades to win independence for the mineral-rich province, home to major China-led projects including a port and gold and copper mines.

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