QUETTA, Jan 21: Gas supply from the Loti field to the Sui purification plant was suspended on Wednesday after militants blew up a pipeline in the Dasht Goran area of Dera Bugti.

“The explosion destroyed a five-foot section of the 18-inch-diameter pipeline,” a security official said on phone from Sui.

A 24-inch pipeline connecting the Pir Koh gas field with the Sui plant had been blown up on Tuesday night.

“The suspension of supply from the two gas fields has affected the Sui plant’s production,” sources said, adding that the pipelines were being repaired.

Sarbaz Baloch, claiming to be the spokesman of the outlawed Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for both the blasts.

Meanwhile, Beebargh Baloch, the spokesman for the banned Baloch Liberation Army, claimed that his organisation had killed four people in Kalat and a bank manager in Quetta.

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