Radio Baghdad: Insurgents explode oil pipeline in southern Iraq
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Ilam, July 21, IRNA
Iraq-Oil Pipe-Explosion
Iraqi state Radio Baghdad announced minutes ago that insurgents on Wednesday night exploded an oil pipeline in southern Iraq's Mahmoudiyeh region.
The radio added, "Due to the explosion of a heavy bomb along the route of Mahmoudiyeh-Latifiyeh oil pipeline on early hours of Wednesday evening a part of it was set ablaze and the high flames due to the burning of the leaking oil covered a vast area for six hours.
Radio Baghdad did not refer to any further details on the incident, or more exact identification of the saboteurs.
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