QUETTA: The power supply to several parts in the city was disrupted on Saturday night after some unidentified people fired a rocket at the Sheik Mandha grid station near Askari Park.
Fire fighters put out the fire that broke out at the grid station. The rocket was fired at around 10:30pm. The local authorities have started searching for the culprits. No group has accepted the responsibility. The Baloch nationalists have been carrying out a low-level insurgency in the Southwestern province of Balochistan for the past two years. They have been targeting government installations to coax the government into meeting their demands. No government official was available for comment. |