 QUETTA: Suspected tribal militants blew up a pipeline supplying gas to the Uch power plant near Dera Murad Jamali late on Monday night, forcing the foreign-owned plant to shut down This was the fourth attack on the pipeline of 24-inch diameter since January. The pipeline explosion blew up six feet of the pipeline at Chatthar town in Balochistan, local police officer Khalid Magsi told AFP.
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It cut the supply to the gas-fired Uch power plant, which had to close down. The plant is jointly owned by Tenaska Inc and GE Capital of the US and International Power Plc of Britain. He could not say how long repairs would take. Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer Abdul Samad Lasi said three bombs went off Tuesday at a state-run gas field in Loti, damaging pipelines linking gas wells to a purification plant. |