QUETTA, March 23: Saboteurs blew up the main railway track near Mach on Wednesday morning. “A three-foot piece of the track was blown up with three home-made bombs at around 6am between Mach and Hrik, some 70km east of Quetta,” levy authorities said. Soon after the explosion levy personnel rushed to the site and informed the railway authorities at the next station that the goods train scheduled to pass the area be stopped.

Railways control officials, while confirming the incident, said that the explosion did not affect the train service because all Quetta-bound trains were stopped at Jacobabad railway station owing to heavy rain that had damaged railway track between Dera Murad Jamali and Nutal area.