QUETTA, May 6: A blast injured two militiamen in the Bakhtairabad area of Nasirabad district while insurgents fired rockets damaging two pylons in Bolan Mountains on Friday. Levy sources in Bakhtairabad tehsil confirmed that two patrol personnel of the Frontier Corps, Faridullah and Umar Ali, were wounded when a detonator planted underground blasted.

In the other incident in Bolan area, some 90 Kms southeast of here, saboteurs targeted two electricity towers in the early hours of Friday. A Qesco spokesman said terrorists had damaged two electricity towers of 132 kV between Pirghaib and Bibinani on the Quetta-Sibi transmission line. However, the attack failed to disrupt the normal power supply.

He acknowledged that the replacement of the pylons would cause suspension of power supply and the shortage would be managed through load shedding.

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