QUETTA, March 27: Gas supply was suspended to a private power plant and seven other industrial units when some people blew up the main gas pipeline near Kolpur on Thursday.
In a similar incident, a railway track linking Quetta with Iran was blown up near Dalbandin. Meanwhile, a powerful explosion rocked Quetta late in the evening and a grenade exploded in a grid station in Sariab.
Head constable shot dead: A head constable was gunned down in Quetta and three policemen, including an inspector, were kidnapped by armed men in the Dashat area of Mastung district on Thursday.
Police sources said that the head constable Mohammad Latif of the traffic police was on duty in Liaquat bazaar when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on him.
According to sources, Mastung police had raided a house in the Dashat area and arrested a proclaimed offender, Abdul Hamid Samalani. After the raid, SHO Abdul Rahim was patrolling the area along with two constables when they came under an attack. The assailants overpowered them and took them away.
The sources said that police had started a search and were raiding different areas to rescue the kidnapped policemen.
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