Abdul Jabbar was one of the injured taken to a private hospital. He said he had purchased tickets from the ticket office and was entering the station when the explosion occurred.
“Words cannot describe the horror I faced today,” he said. “It felt like judgment day had come.”
Muhammad Sohail arrived to catch a train to Multan shortly after the blast occurred.
“Everything in the station was destroyed and people were lying on the ground crying for help,” he said.
The separatist Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack.
In a statement released on social media, the group said it targeted a Pakistani military unit returning from Quetta after completing a training course.
Police later confirmed that 14 soldiers were among the dead.
Balochistan’s prime minister said the act was deplorable and the perpetrators were “worse than animals.” He said authorities would hunt them down and “bring them to their logical end.”
Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq condemned those responsible for the blast, calling them “enemies of humanity.”
Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest province, richest in natural resources, but the least developed.
The region shares a volatile border with Iran and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and boasts an extensive coastline along the Arabian Sea.
