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Blast on Iran-Turkey pipeline hits supply
The flow of Iranian natural gas to Turkey was halted early on Monday after an explosion hit a gas pipeline in eastern Turkey, Turkish energy officials said.
- Reuters
- Published: 22:27 May 26, 2008
Tunceli: The flow of Iranian natural gas to Turkey was halted early on Monday after an explosion hit a gas pipeline in eastern Turkey, Turkish energy officials said.
A senior military source in southeast Turkey, who declined to be named, told Reuters the blast was the work of the outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Work to repair the pipeline, hit just after midnight, was underway and it should be operational in a few days time, said a source at state gas company Botas.
"The first results of the investigation show damage to a 30 metre piece of the pipeline which will need to be replaced," the Botas source told Reuters.
An energy ministry official, who declined to be named, said the blast, which he believed may have been sabotage, occurred around 13 kilometres inside Turkish territory.
Sabotage is common on pipelines leading into Turkey from Iran and Iraq.
The military source said Kurdish guerillas had detonated explosives on the pipeline near Dogubeyazit, close to the Iranian border.
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