QUETTA: Gas supply was suspended to a vast area of the province on Saturday after unknown armed men blew up a gas pipeline in the Dera Bugti area, police said.

Police officials said unknown miscreants planted explosives under the pipeline in the Mondrani area of Dera Bugti and detonated them, resulting in the destruction of a large portion of the gas pipeline.

“It was a 26-inch diameter main gas pipeline supplying gas to Dera Bugti, Sui, and large areas of Sibi and Nasirabad districts,” officials said, adding that a fire broke out in the pipeline after the blast. However, SSGC engineers and staff rushed to the site and brought the fire under control.

Soon after the blast, police and security forces reached the site and launched an investigation.

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2026