QUETTA, March 23: Gas supply was suspended to the purification plant from a well of the Sui gas field as militants blew up a pipeline on Friday. Official sources confirming the incident said that tribal militants placed a locally-made powerful bomb under the pipeline supplying gas to the main plant from well No 86 and blew it up.
Security forces and PPL officials rushed to the site and immediately cut off the gas supply. "An eight-inch diameter of the pipeline was blown up in the blast," police sources in Sui said.
Officials said that the gas supply to the plant would be restored as soon as PPL engineers start repairing the pipeline.
ATTEMPT FOILED: Meanwhile, law-enforcement agencies foiled an attempt to blow up the railway tracks between Mastung and Nushki, linking Quetta with Zahidan.
It was learnt that some unidentified men had planted a powerful landmine under a railway bridge.
Personnel of law-enforcement agencies rushed to the site soon after being tipped off about it.
“It was a four-kg landmine,” official sources said.
