Quetta - A main gasline, supplying gas to Karachi, was blown up in Sui area of Dera Bugti Monday. According to police sources, unidentified saboteurs had fitted explosives with an 18-inch diameter gas pipeline in Gopat area of Sui which exploded with a huge blast, destroying a large portion of pipeline. As a result, gas supply to Karachi and some interior parts of Sindh from the damaged pipeline was suspended.
Meanwhile, the spokesman of defunct Baloch Republican Army (BRA), Sarbaz
Baloch, calling from unspecified location via satellite phone claimed
responsibility for the blowing up gas pipeline.