QUETTA, March 7: Three gas pipelines were blown up in the Pir Koh gas field area and Mastung township, while a bomb exploded in Quetta and around 28 rockets were fired at Frontier Corps checkposts in Kohlu and Dera Bugti districts, on Tuesday.

The city was rocked at night by a powerful explosion in the Railway Colony. The device was planted near the house of a union council Nazim Javed. The portion of the house was damaged and windowpanes of nearby houses were smashed. However, no one was killed or injured. Unknown people also blew up a pipeline supplying gas to Mastung in the early morning stopping the gas supply to the township. Two other gas pipelines connecting gas plant with well No 3 and 16 from Pir Koh gas field were also blown up on Tuesday evening. Repair work could not be started as landmines had been planted there. The gas plant is closed for the last three weeks. The District Nazim Dera Bugti Mohammad Kazim Bugti said that four gas wells were destroyed in Pir Koh gas field. He also claimed that a widow and her three children were killed in Khambi area of Dera Bugti during exchange of heavy firing between forces and armed men. According to reports unknown armed men fired at least 28 rockets at FC checkposts in different areas of Dera Bugti and Kohlu districts.