Gas supply to Balochistan suspended after attack
09 February, 2011
QUETTA: Unidentified men blew up two major natural gas pipelines in Nasirabad city of Balochistan province on Tuesday, forcing the suspension of supplies to the strategic region bordering Afghanistan and Iran, officials said. "We have suspended gas supply to the province as the pipelines are on fire," Inayatullah Ismail, a spokesman for Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) that supplies gas to the southern parts of the country said. Ismail said he was unsure how long it would take to extinguish the fire and resume gas supplies. The twin explosions followed a late Monday night attack on four transmission pylons in the Bolan area, suspending power supplies to around half of the province`s 30 districts. A spokesman for the government-owned power company said that electricity to some parts Quetta city had been restored, but the rest of the districts had been "in complete darkness for the last 24 hours". End.
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