Four bombs
went off on Saturday near a minor pipeline from an oilfield close to the
northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, security and oil industry sources said.
The pipeline
delivers crude from the Bai Hassan oilfield to a degassing station in Kirkuk,
though pumping had been halted for maintenance at the time of the blasts,
security sources and officials at the state-run North Oil Company said.
"Four
bombs blew up near a pipeline in Bai Hassan oilfield this morning, causing a
fire. Firefighters are trying to put out the blaze," said an oil engineer.
One member
of the Kurdish security forces was killed and two were wounded when three more
bombs exploded as they approached the location of the first blast, a Kurdish
security member said.
(Reuters)
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