QUETTA: A pipeline supplying gas from Pirkoh wells to Sui plant was blown up in the Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti district¢s Sui tehsil on Sunday, area police officials said. Unidentified men planted the bomb near the 16-inch pipeline, and the explosion destroyed a portion of the pipeline. Pakistan Petroleum Limited sources said that a team of engineers had been sent to the site in order to repair the damaged pipeline. Seperately, the railway track linking Quetta with other parts of the country was blown up and a Karachi to Quetta train was damaged in the Dasht area on Sunday, police and railway officials said. They said that no one was injured in the explosion.
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