Gas pipeline blown up near Dera Bugti

QUETTA— Supply of gas to the main Sui purification plant from the Pir Koh gas field was disrupted when militants blew up another gas pipeline on Tuesday.

Police sources, confirming the incident, said the militants had planted explosive device under the 18-inch-diameter pipeline supplying gas to the main purification plant from Pir Koh gas field near Dera Bugti.

After the blast, the pipeline caught fire which was brought under control by suspending gas supply from Pir Koh.However, the PPL sources claimed that despite reduction in gas supply from Pir Koh the plant was working smoothly and gas supply was not suspended to any area of Punjab and Sindh.

It may be pointed out that the people in Quetta have been facing decline in gas pressure for about a week.The SSGC sources said that repair work was under way on the two damaged portions of gas pipeline of 24-inch and

18-inch diameter and affected portions were likely to be repaired in next twenty four hours. The shadowy Baloch Liberation Army had claimed responsibility for blowing up gas pipelines in Dera Bugti.