QUETTA, Feb 5: Six people, including two security guards, were killed and over a dozen others, including women and children, were injured in an overnight missile attack on Sui town while another gas pipeline in the Loti gas field was blown up on Sunday.

Unidentified armed men launched the missile attack from the Mohan Put area, some 20km from Sui, on Saturday evening and continued doing so till late in the night.

“Over 100 missiles and long-range rockets landed and exploded in Sui township, damaging 16 houses and government buildings,” official sources told Dawn.

Water and power supply was disrupted in the Sui town as some of the missiles hit the water tankers and transmission lines providing electricity to the town, sources said, and added that 15 people, including women and children, were injured when their houses were hit by rockets and missiles.

The people killed in the attack were identified as Dost Ali Hamzani Bugti, Jalul Hamzani Bugti, Ali Hasan, Mazar Khan Bugti and two security guards, Mohammad Mukhtar and Mohammad Nawaz.

GAS PIPELINE: Unidentified men on Sunday morning blew up another gas pipeline supplying gas to the Loti gas plant from well No3. “An 11-ft-long portion of the pipeline blew up and gas supply to the plant stopped,” Abdul Samad Lasi, DCO, Dera Bugti, confirmed to Dawn over the telephone.