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Bomb causes fire in Iraqi domestic oil pipeline

A crude oil pipeline carrying oil from a town in northern Iraq to the city of Kirkuk erupted in flames due to a bomb, Iraqi and US military officials said on Thursday.

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  • Published: 14:06 December 25, 2008
  • Gulf News

Kirkuk: A crude oil pipeline carrying oil from a town in northern Iraq to the city of Kirkuk erupted in flames due to a bomb, Iraqi and US military officials said on Thursday.

The explosion at around midnight set fire to one pipeline and damaged a second, said the joint US-Iraqi military coordination centre in Kirkuk. Exports were not affected.

The fire occurred in the town of By Hassan, near the disputed city of Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, police said.

"This explosion did not affect the Iraqi-Turkish pipeline, it is for domestic use. In the next few hours we should be able to extinguish the fire," said a source at the state-run North Oil Company, who asked not to be identified.

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