Bombs blast Pakistan gas pipeline and railway

A powerful bomb ripped open a gas pipeline in eastern Pakistan, disrupting gas supplies, police said. No injuries were reported.

It wasn’t immediately clear who was behind the blast late yesterday at Kala Shah Kaku, an industrial town about 155 miles south-east of the capital, Islamabad, and police official Mohammed Bashir said officers were still investigating. He gave no other details.

An official of the state-owned gas company, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines, said “apparently some unknown terrorists used a time bomb to destroy the gas pipeline”.

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the company will issue a statement about the incident after receiving an initial report from their experts.

:: Two bombs exploded 15 minutes apart on a rail track moments before a passenger train was to pass over it in southern Pakistan, damaging the track and wounding two people, a police official said today.

In March, two small bombs exploded on a railway track in another region of Sindh province, but no one was hurt.