QUETTA, April 3: Supply from the Pir Koh gas field to the main purification plant in Sui was suspended after a pipeline was blown up by freedom fighters in Dashat Goran area of Dera Bugti district on Thursday.
According to police sources, the blast was caused by a device planted under the 24-inch pipeline which supplied gas to the main plant.
PPL sources, however, said that the blast, has caused major blow to plants functioning and gas supply was suspended to many areas in country.
At least nine people were injured in bomb explosions in Dera Allahyar and Mastung on Thursday.
Three guards of pro-government tribal elder Wadera Bungal Khan Bugti and three passers-by were injured when a remote-controlled bomb attached to a parked motorcycle exploded near Sobatpur Chowk in Dera Allahyar. Bungal Khan, a former commander of the slain nationalist leader, Nawab Akbar Bugti, escaped unhurt.
The injured — Abdul Nabi, Mohammad Ismail, Mohammad Hasan, Ghulam Mustafa, Tayyib Gul and Lak Mir — were taken to the Labour Hospital and two of them were said to be in a serious condition.
Three linemen of the Quetta Electric Supply Company (Qesco) were injured when a landmine exploded in Pashkram village in Mastung district. They were repairing a power pylon which had been blown up on Wednesday night.
The injured — Khawaja Mohammad, Mohammad Iqbal and Mazoor Ahmed — were taken to the Mastung Civil Hospital.
A Qesco official said power supply to Mastung, Kalat, Khuzdar and Kharan had been affected and the company had made alternative arrangements to restore supply.
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