QUETTA, Oct 28: Gas supply was suspended to the Uch power plant in Dera Murad Jamali in the early hours of Sunday after a pipeline connecting the Uch gas field with the power plant was blown up.
According to official sources, armed militants planted explosives under the 18-inch diameter pipeline in the Pat Feeder area of Nasirabad district.
“The gas supply was disrupted to the plant but its functioning was not affected as it kept receiving gas from an alternative line,” the sources said, adding that at least a four-foot-long portion of the pipeline had been destroyed by the blast.
Engineers of the Oil and Gas Development Corporation started repairing the pipeline and supply is expected to be restored by Monday morning.
GRENADE HURLED: Men on a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade on Sunday night at the house of one Chaudhry Shabbir in Mach. The grenade exploded in the courtyard of the house.
The windowpanes and the door of the house were damaged in the blast. No casualty was reported.
TWO HELD: Police arrested two suspected militants from the Pat Feeder and Uch areas of Dera Bugti district and seized illegal arms, ammunition and anti-personnel mines.
They were identified as Sona Khan Bugti and Sadiq Bugti.
