Suspected insurgents bombed a main railway line and four power pylons in Balochistan, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without electricity, officials said on Sunday.Quetta and 14 other districts were without power since late Saturday after tribal militants attacked the pylons, said company official Naeem Akbar Shah said. Repair teams had been sent to the site in Bolan district, some 150 kilometres southeast of Quetta, Shah said. Separately insurgents blew up part of a main railway track with explosives near Sibbi district late on Saturday, but no trains were passing at that time, a local police official said.
The track was repaired early on Sunday and three trains stopped at Sibbi railway station were allowed to continue their journeys, the official said. Security officials in Quetta said that they had received reports of bomb blasts in Mastung, Pasni and Panjgoor towns overnight, but there were no casualties. Rebels also fired 25 rockets on paramilitary forces in Tratani village of the restive Kohlu district late on Saturday, but there were no casualties, they said.