March 28, 2007	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 8, 1428

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QUETTA, March 27: Three explosions rocked the provincial capital on Tuesday night.

Police said that unknown saboteurs hurled a hand-grenade in the house of a government employee in the Killi Ibrahimzai area of Brewery. Two motorcycles parked inside the house were destroyed in the blast.

Another bomb exploded in the Killi Bangulzai area. The third blast took place in the Sariab area.

In another incident, a gas pipeline was blown up in the Lakpass area of Mastung district, disrupting the supply to many areas.

Police arrested a suspect from the Dashat area and seized a hand-grenade and a pistol.

Meanwhile, the banned Baloch Liberation Army claimed the responsibility of rocket attacks and blowing up of railway tracks in different areas of the province.

A caller identifying himself as Bebrag Baloch and spokesman for the BLA told journalists on telephone from unknown location that militants had killed seven security personnel and injured 10 others in an armed attack in the Kahan area of Kohlu district. He claimed that three security men were also killed in the Bhombor area.

PYLON BLOWN UP: Quetta and some other districts of Balochistan plunged into darkness when a pylon of 220kv Quetta-Sibi transmission line was blown up in the Aab Gum area of the Bolan district on Tuesday night.

Sources said that unknown culprits planted the explosives around the pylon and blew it up.

However, power supply was restored in some parts of Quetta through the Habibullah coastal power plant.