QUETTA, May 23: Security forces on Tuesday foiled an attempt to blow up a gas well in Sui field, defusing most of the explosives. One device, however, exploded but caused no damage. According to sources, the explosive devices had been planted to blow up two wells.

During search, security officials found explosives planted close to well No.2, which were defused.

A police official said in Sui that security forces found a landmine and foiled an attempt to blow up the house of Wadera Miwa Khan Bugti, who had recently withdrawn his support from Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar Bugti and joined hands with the government.

Meanwhile, more than a dozen rockets were fired on Frontier Corps checkpoints in Chashma, Sangsilla, Loti and Gandoi areas of Dera Bugti, the sources said, adding that no damage was reported.

Reports reaching here said 427 people belonging to Bugti tribe, who had left the area because of fighting, returned to their homes in Dera Bugti.—Staff Correspondent