QUETTA – Saboteurs on Sunday exploded a main gas supply pipeline in Lot gas field area at Dera Bugti. Reports reaching here said unidentified people attached had attached explosives to the main 18-inch diameter gas pipeline which later exploded disrupting supply to main gas plant.
In another incident, four rockets were fired on Uchh gas field in the small hours on Sunday. The rockets missed the target and exploded in the open without causing any damage.
Gas pressure remains low: Gas pressure in 9 districts of Balochistan, which was reduced after militants blew a main 18 inches pipeline four days ago, could not be restored till late Sunday night. The repair work was completed on Saturday but 70 percent of over 200,000 consumers are still not being provided with sufficient gas pressure over the 400km pipeline. Officials have said that the pressure will be restored in the next 24 hours.
