Islamabad, March 14: Unknown militants have blown up a gas pipeline in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, halting gas flow to different parts of the tribal region.
Pakistani officials told Media that the gunmen blew up a 12-inch diameter pipeline in the Rabih Canal area of Naseerabad on Sunday night.
There have been no immediate reports of casualties in the attacks.
The militants strapped explosives to the pipeline supplying natural gas from Shikarpur to Quetta.
Pakistani security forces have cordoned off the area and begun a search operation.
Militants have destroyed several gas pipelines in various parts of the conflict-riddled province over the past weeks.
Previously, the militant Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the spate of attacks this past month on several gas pipelines in the region.
The group has been waging a low-scale separatist insurgency for decades in the country’s oil and gas-rich province, which supplies much of Pakistan’s natural gas.
——Agencies