Pakistan gas plant hit, several killed

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Pakistani authorities have shut a natural gas plant and security forces have taken control of it after eight people died following a rocket attack, according to government officials.

The fatalities occured in clashes triggered by renegade tribesmen whose rocket attack blew up a gas pipeline in Sui, 350km southeast of Quetta city.

Soldiers were dispatched to control the situation on Tuesday after the armed tribesmen stormed the gas plant and "started damaging it", senior government official Abdul Samad Lasi said.

Eight people, three of them security personnel, were killed and another 33 people, mostly civilians, were wounded in five days of shootouts between assailants and government forces, he said.

al Jazeera