Rail traffic was restored between Quetta and Sibi on Tuesday after remaining suspended on Monday night following a powerful explosion on the main rail track linking Quetta with other parts of the country.

An unidentified saboteurs blew up the track near the Balochistan University. “A piece of one and half feet long rail track was blown by a powerful blast,” a senior official of the Pakistan Railway’s Quetta division said.

The saboteurs blew up the track with powerful explosives planted under the track, sources said and added that after the explosion railway engineers and other staff rushed to the site and started replacing the affected track.

The sources said that the blast took place after the passing of a goods train on the track. Quetta-bound passenger trains coming from Punjab and Karachi were stopped at the Sibi railway station.

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