The fate of hundreds of passengers remained unknown more than 24 hours after separatist militants in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province seized a train carrying more than 400 people,

Security forces were trying to rescue passengers a day after Baloch ethnic fighters seized a train carrying more than 400 people.

Nearly 350 hostages have been rescued at the end of a deadly standoff between Pakistan’s military and armed militants who hijacked a train in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, a security source told CNN Wednesday.