QUETTA, Pakistan, July 4 (APP) : Gas supply to a purification plant suspended after suspected unknown people blew up a 16-iunch diameter gas pipeline in Dera Bugti, police said Friday. According to reports, unknown people strapped explosive device with a pipeline which exploded destroying several feet long section of the pipeline. Separately, an electricity pylon was blown up at Rakhni some 100 kilometers from Loralai in Balochistan on Friday causing power disruption in Barkhan and other adjacent areas.
Motorcycle bomb kills one and left 15 injured
QUETTA, Pakistan, July 4 (AFP): A bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded at a crowded market in the Balochistan city of Quetta Friday, killing a girl and injuring 11 others, police said. The blast at Quetta’s Mannan Chowk also injured four policemen and seven others, police official Raja Ishtiaq told AFP. “The blast killed an eight-year-old girl and injured her beggar mother who were sitting near the motorcycle parked by some unknown man,” another police official Abdul Ghafoor said, adding that no group had claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mastaung firing wounds 4 people
MASTAUNG: Four people were left wounded as unidentified people opened firing on a vehicle here on Thursday. According to police sources, the wounded include Muhammad Hanif, Zafar Hussain, Safar Khan, and Sikandar Ali. The injured were admitted to Civil Hospital Quetta where as the police started probing into incident. |