SUKKUR, Feb 19: Some unidentified outlaws tried to blow up a gas pipeline near Saifal Shakh, Karampur police station jurisdiction, Kandhkot, on Saturday.

A bomb blast created a several feet deep crater near the gas pipeline but little damage was caused to the pipeline.

Residents of nearby villages said the explosion was so intense that it shook the earth. On receiving the information, DPO Din Mohammad Baloch and TPOs of Kandhkot and Tangwani rushed to the scene.

They also called bomb disposal squad officials from Sukkur. The DPO termed the blast a terrorist act to blow up the pipeline. He said the bomb contained powder chemicals. He further said a case would be registered after investigation.

ARRESTED: The Jacobabad police and Rangers personnel raided a PCO in Jacobabad on Saturday and arrested two persons following issuance of threats of terrorist acts to police by some people from the PCO after the recent bomb blasts in Quetta.

Those arrested were identified as Ghulam Noonari and Zahid Mangi. The PCO was sealed. Reports said after the blasts in Quetta, police received threats on telephone and when the calls were traced it was revealed that the calls had been from the PCO.

Police claimed that the people who had called police had accepted responsibility for the Quetta blasts and had also threatened to carry out terrorist attacks in Quetta and Jacobabad. They said after the phone calls, strict security measures were adopted at Imambargahs and along routes of mourning processions.