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No weapons and arrests as hunt continues in Sui
 QUETTA: No one has been arrested and no weapons have been seized in an operation that began on Friday against suspected tribesmen who fired rockets and mortars at the main gas plant at Sui, officials said on Saturday. Paramilitary troops are searching homes in villages around the gas field, local government administrator Abdul Sattar Lasi said. Thousands of army and paramilitary troops have been deployed to guard the facility. Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said additional security forces would be deployed there. "Our basic objective is to secure the Sui plant so that such incidents don't happen in the future," Mr Sherpao told a private television channel. Authorities shut supply from the gas field after a pipeline and a compressor plant there were damaged by a fire that was triggered by a rocket attack. Meanwhile, Mr Sherpao said the Balochistan government's request to deploy law enforcement agencies at Sui was being reviewed and the personnel would be sent as demanded by the province. He said the personnel would be deployed specifically to protect the Sui gas plant for which the army could also be deployed. He said arrangements would also be made to prevent such an incident from happening again.Posted by: Fred 2005-01-16 |
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