A paramilitary trooper was killed and six others were injured in a remote control bomb blast here on Saturday, while gas pipelines were blown up in separate violent incidents in the province. According to details, a remote control bomb killed a Frontier Corps (FC) trooper in Noshki district on Saturday afternoon. Sources said that a team of FC personnel were traveling near the Chagai Flour Mill when unidentified people triggered the bomb. Subsequently, Muhammad Zubair was killed and six others, one seriously, were injured.
In the second incident, unidentified persons blew up two gas pipelines in Dera Bugti district which caused suspension of gas supply to many parts of the town. One of the damaged gas pipelines, of 20-inch diameter, supplies gas from Pir Koh locality to Sui area, while the other 18-diameter gas pipeline supplies gas to Karachi from Sui township.
An underground organisation calling itself the Balochistan Republican Army (BRA) accepted responsibility for blowing up the gas pipelines as part of its struggle against the federal government to provide the Baloch people their ‘just rights’.
In Awaran district, three rockets were fired on the local office of the Election Commission of Pakistan and the telephone exchange. The rockets damaged the furniture and computers at the election commission office.
Separately, two hand grenades were hurled at a police check-post in western district of Panjgur. According to a local journalist, the police tried to stop two suspected motorcyclists at Gramkan Mode, but they ignored the warning and lobbed two handgrenades at the police to escape arrest. However, no causalities were reported.