Islamabad, February 28: Unknown militants have exploded a gas pipeline in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, suspending gas supply to parts of the area.
According to local officials, unidentified gunmen detonated the gas pipeline with explosives near Muhammad Bux Malook village in Tehsil Thul of Jacobabad later on Sunday, a Media correspondent reported.
Police and security forces closed in on the scene in the aftermath of the attack and extinguished the fire.
Militants have destroyed several gas pipelines in different parts of the conflict-riddled province over the past few weeks.
There have been no immediate reports of casualties in the attacks.
Previously, the militant Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the spate of attacks on several gas pipelines in the recent month in the region.
The group is 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