Attackers set off explosives along a gas pipeline in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula that transports fuel to neighbouring Israel and Jordan early on Thursday, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported. It is the seventh attack on the pipeline since the popular uprising ousted long-time Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in February.
The report on MENA said unidentified assailants placed explosive charges in two separate places on the line that transports natural gas near the north Sinai town of el-Arish, causing blasts and huge fires. The explosions forced a shutdown and halted exports to Jordan and Israel. But later, a Sinai security official said there was only one explosion Thursday on the pipeline.