Iraq Halts Oil Shipments to Turkey After Pipeline Blast
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Iraqi oil exports to Turkey were halted after an explosion on the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik pipeline that an official said was triggered by sabotage.
The cause of the blast, which occurred 59 kilometers (37 miles) inside Turkey in the southeastern province of Sirnak at 1:16 a.m., is being investigated, said a spokesman at the country’s state-run pipeline company Botas. The pipeline was sabotaged, said a deputy director of Iraq’s North Oil Co.