Gas supply, rail link suspended

Published November 9, 2007

QUETTA, Nov 8: Gas Supply to Quetta and some other areas of the province was suspended and rail link of the provincial capital with rest of the country was disrupted when saboteurs blew up the main railway line and gas pipeline in Bolan and Sibi areas late on Thursday night.

“Yes, a 24-inch gas pipeline was blown up in Bolan area,” an official of the Sui Southern Gas Company confirmed to Dawn.

“A 2-foot-long piece of railway track was blown up in a powerful blast that rocked Sibi township,” police sources told Dawn.

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