Unidentified individuals blew up a natural gas pipeline in Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab province of Pakistan on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.
According to reports, unidentified individuals blew up a natural gas pipeline by planting explosives in Sadiqabad teshil of Rahim Yar Khan district. The pipeline was supplying gas from Balochistan’s Sui gas field to different areas of Pakistan’s Punjab province.
The incident resulted in suspension of gas supply to several areas of Punjab.
A pro-independence Baloch armed group, Baloch Republican Guards (BRG), in a media statement took responsibility for the attack.
Dostain Baloch, the spokesman for the Baloch Republican Guards added that BRG fighters destroyed a 36-inch diameter gas pipeline by planting explosives in Sadiqabad, Punjab.