Gas pipeline blown up

Published March 31, 2007

QUETTA, March 30: Supply of gas to Kalat was suspended on Friday night after a main pipeline was blown up on the RCD highway. Police sources said a powerful device, planted under the pipeline, exploded near the Government College for Boys, damaging three-foot portion of the 12-inch diameter line.

“Kalat town and adjoining villages are without gas,” police sources said.

SSGC officials said work on repairing the pipeline would be started on Saturday morning.

Meanwhile, three rockets were fired on the Frontier Corps fort in Mashkey area of Awaran district.

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