Gunmen blew up gas pipeline in Egypt
Gunmen blew up a natural gas pipeline on Tuesday evening in Egypt's Arish city of
North Sinai governorate, a local security source has said.
It said on Wednesday in Arish that the assailants bombed the
pipeline in southern Arish that provides natural gas to the industrial area,
and pointing fingers at extremist supporters of ousted Islamist president
Mohamed Morsi.
It added that the pipeline basically provides natural gas to
factories belonging to the armed forces.
It said since Morsi's removal by the military in July 2013,
gas pipelines in Sinai have been targeted several times, and the al-
Qaida-inspired and Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group have always claimed
responsibility for the attacks.
It said on February 11, a pipeline in Arish providing
natural gas to Jordan and some plants in Sinai was similarly blown up.
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