QUETTA, Jan 2: A worker died of severe cold in a protest camp in Sui area of Dera Bugti district on Saturday night.
According to reports reaching here, Pir Jan Bugti was among the protesters who had been observing strike and staging protest at various gates of the Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) purification plant for the last eight months in support of their demands.
"Pir Jan lost his life last night in the protesting camp due to severe cold," the President of the Fireman Association of the PPL, Marri Khan Bugti, said at a press conference in Dera Bugti on Sunday.
He announced a three-day mourning for the death of Pir Jan. He criticized the attitude of the PPL administration for not paying any heed to the demands of protesting employees.
Meanwhile, work charge employees of Uch gas field staged a protest rally in Uch on Sunday and marched through the main streets of the township in support of their demands. They chanted slogans against the officials of the Oil and Gas Development Corporation for not accepting their just demands.
