QUETTA, May 17: An explosive device planted under a gas pipeline went off in Bugti Colony of the Sui area on Wednesday, killing a seven-year old girl, injuring two women and suspending gas supply to Sui gas plant.
Unknown people had planted the powerful explosive device under the pipeline supplying gas to Sui gas plant from Loti gas wells.
“The girl, Mah Noor, died on the spot after splinters hit her,” official sources in Sui said and added that the injured women include the girl’s mother and they had been admitted to Sui hospital.
A large part of the 16-inch diameter pipeline was blown up, sources said and added that repair of the damaged pipeline had been started.
Sources said that after the pipeline explosion, armed tribesmen launched a rocket attack on an Oil and Gas Development Corporation camp in the area.
They fired at least 16 rockets at the camp from nearby mountains with brief interval.
“Three employees of the OGDC were injured as two rockets landed in the camp area,” official sources told newsmen over telephone.
Moreover, a shop was destroyed and a patrol pump damaged in the rocket attack.
The attackers escaped when security forces fired rockets and mortar shells at their positions, sources said.
TWO POLICEMEN KILLED: Two policemen were killed in an attack on a police check-post in Nasrullah village near Dera Allahyar town of Jaffarabad district on Wednesday.
“Miscreants riding a pick-up opened indiscriminate fire at the police check-post and killed head constable Abdul Fateh Khosa and constable Noor Mohammad Lashari,” DSP, Dera Allahyar, Jamil Asghar, said and termed the attack a terrorist act.
He said that the attackers might be the same terrorists who had killed additional SHO, Dera Bugti, Liaqat Ali Cheema.
After the incident, security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to arrest the attackers.
BLASTS: Two bombs exploded in Mach, a coalmine township, and a landmine exploded in the Nal area of Kohlu district, injuring a Frontier Corps soldier, Mohammad Naeem.
In Mach, the first bomb blast damaged wall of a school and smashed windowpanes of a house. The second blast took place near the Civil Hospital, damaging walls of the hospital and some nearby houses.
