QUETTA: Suspected militant tribesmen blew up a gas well and gas pipeline in Loti gas plant and fired some 200 rockets at paramilitary forces in Dera Bugti on Saturday. Armed tribesmen also fired rockets and 107-type missiles in Sui on Saturday, killing a Difference Service Guard (DSG) and injuring two others.Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer Abdul Samad Lasi said that well No 10 and a 60-foot gas pipeline were damaged when tribesmen attacked the Loti gas plant. The gas plant produces 35 million cubic feet of gas daily, and well No 10 was producing two million cubic feet of gas a day. Lasi said that tribesmen had installed landmines in many areas, especially around the Loti and Pirkoh gas plants. The water supply to both plants had been destroyed in blasts last month. Now tribesmen were attacking containers supplying water to the plants, he said, adding that if water was not supplied to the plants, they could be closed. He said that armed tribesmen were not allowing the damage to be repaired or the landmines to be cleared.
Lasi said that one Frontier Corps soldier was injured when tribesmen fired 200 rockets and mortars at the main FC base in Dera Bugti before dawn on Saturday. One rocket hit an army officerÂ’s office, injuring a guard and damaging the structure, he said.