QUETTA: On the outskirts of Bugti Tribal Area, Baloch separatists blew up a gas pipeline disrupting supplies to the Sui Compressor Plant, as per an official of the Levies Thana in Dera Bugti.
The official said militants had planted explosives beneath the 24-inch diameter gas pipeline, about 15 kilometres away from Dera Bugti town. He added, “The explosives were detonated Sunday morning which tore off a huge piece of the pipeline running from the Pirkoh Purification Plant to the Sui Compressor Plant.”
As a result gas supply to Sui was disrupted, he said, adding that the pipeline belonged to the Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL). Security forces and Levies personnel reached the site and started investigation. However, repair work on the damaged pipeline could not be immediately started.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the sabotage. Elsewhere in the troubled province, a paramilitary soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a landmine blast in the Chatter area of Nasirabad district on Sunday.
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