Abdul Jabbar was among the injured brought to the Civil Hospital. He said that he was entering the station, having purchased a ticket from the booking office, when the explosion happened.
“I can’t describe the horror I faced today, it was like a judgement day has come,” he said.
Muhammad Sohail arrived soon after the explosion had happened to catch his train to Multan.
“Everything was destroyed at the station, and people were laying down on the ground screaming for help,” he said.
A separatist militant group, the Baloch Liberation Army, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
In a statement released on social media, the group said it targeted a Pakistan military unit that was returning from Quetta after completing a training course.
The chief minister of Balochistan called the act deplorable and the perpetrators “worse than animals”. He said the authorities would pursue them and “bring them to their logical end”.
The speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, condemned the blast, saying those responsible were the “enemies of humanity”.
Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest province and the richest in terms of natural resources, but it is the least developed.
The region shares a volatile border with Iran and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, and also boasts a vast coastline along the Arabian Sea.