QUETTA, Feb 5: Six people, including two security guards, were killed and over a dozen others, including women and children, were injured in an overnight missile attack on Sui town while another gas pipeline in the Loti gas field was blown up on Sunday.
Unidentified armed men launched the missile attack from the Mohan Put area, some 20km from Sui, on Saturday evening and continued doing so till late in the night.
“Over 100 missiles and long-range rockets landed and exploded in Sui township, damaging 16 houses and government buildings,” official sources told Dawn.
Water and power supply was disrupted in the Sui town as some of the missiles hit the water tankers and transmission lines providing electricity to the town, sources said, and added that 15 people, including women and children, were injured when their houses were hit by rockets and missiles.
The people killed in the attack were identified as Dost Ali Hamzani Bugti, Jalul Hamzani Bugti, Ali Hasan, Mazar Khan Bugti and two security guards, Mohammad Mukhtar and Mohammad Nawaz.
GAS PIPELINE: Unidentified men on Sunday morning blew up another gas pipeline supplying gas to the Loti gas plant from well No3. “An 11-ft-long portion of the pipeline blew up and gas supply to the plant stopped,” Abdul Samad Lasi, DCO, Dera Bugti, confirmed to Dawn over the telephone.
It was the second incident in the Loti gas field within two days. The pipeline from well No10 had been blown up the other day.
The Loti gas plant is facing a shortage of around 4 million cubic feet of gas per day due to the blasting of the pipelines, sources said.
The repairing of the pipelines has started and it is expected that it would take at least two days, sources said, and added that seven people were injured in the Pir Koh town when some rockets aimed at an FC convoy carrying water tankers for the gas plant missed their target hitting some houses instead.
ONE KILLED: In another incident, a man was killed and another injured when their water tanker drove over a landmine in the Kahan area of Kohlu district on Sunday morning.
