Terrorists bombed the main gas pipeline supplying Karachi and Hyderabad from Sui in Balochistan, at a village in district Sanghar, some 22km from here, on Sunday evening, a Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) official said.
| It wasn't terrorists. It was just the damned Bugtis again, and you know it... |
No casualty was reported, the police said. This brought stopped gas to some suburban towns of Hyderabad district, Hasan Nawaz, senior manager of the SSGC said, adding gas was now being supplied to Karachi and Hyderabad by two other supply lines. He described the incident as subversion and an anti-state action. Smoke clouded the area following the blast, the police said. The SSGC official said the gas pipeline was bombed at Pir Abdul Nabi Sarhandi village near Odero Lal town in the police limits of Tando Adam in district Sanghar. The Hyderabad district police officer rushed to the scene with other police officials, cordoned off the blast site and evacuated Sarhandi village and five other villages in its vicinity as a precautionary measure. After the blast, gas spread over an area of about 10 kilometres. A bomb disposal squad from Hyderabad also inspected the scene of the explosion and said it was caused by explosives. |