QUETTA: Unidentified persons damaged the Sui-Och gas pipeline in the Chathar area of Dera Murad Jamali affecting gas supply to the Och power plant, Dera Murad Jamali police told APP.
The men had planted explosives under the pipeline supplying gas from the Sui town of Dera Bugti to the Och power plant in Nasirabad district, damaging a three-feet segment of the 26-inch-diameter pipeline.
Oil and Gas Development Corporation (OGDC) sources said that the power supply from the plant would be affected and gas supply to Punjab and Sindh have been reduced. Later Spokesman of Baloch Republican Army Mr. Sarbaz Baloch claimed responsibility of the attack via phone call from undisclosed location.
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