QUETTA, March 3: Five security men were injured when a landmine exploded in Dera Bugti on Monday.

According to sources, a vehicle carrying the five Frontier Corps personnel to Sui hit the landmine near the Pesh Bogi area.

The injured were taken to the Sui hospital. Two of them were said to be in a serious condition.

In another incident, four armymen were injured when their vehicle hit a landmine in Barkhan area of Balochistan.

Meanwhile, two pylons of a high power transmission line were blown up near Dera Allayhyar, suspending power supply to Shikarpur from the Och power plant in Dera Murad Jamali. Sources said the explosive devices had been placed around the pylons.

In yet another incident, some people damaged a gas pipeline in Hazargangi in Quetta’s outskirts.

According to SSGC officials, damage to the six-inch diameter pipeline caused suspension of gas supply to several areas in the locality.

Beebarg Baloch, a spokesman for the defunct Baloch Liberation Army, has claimed that six security men were killed in the landmine explosion in the Barkhan area. He was talking to newsmen in Quetta on a satellite phone from an unknown place.