SIRNAK (AA) - August 27, 2012 - Firefighters put out a blaze which shut down Monday a Turkey-bound Iraqi oil pipeline that carries about a quarter of Iraq's oil exports, Turkish officials said.
Officials said a bomb attack by PKK terrorists caused the fire on a section of the 960-km Kirkuk-Yumurtalik pipeline near Silopi town of the southwestern province of Sirnak.
Firefighters found charred body of a woman lying near the pipeline with an automatic rifle beside her, officials said.
The two lines carry about 25m tonnes of crude oil a year.
The terrorist organization PKK has claimed responsibility for similar attacks in the past on the pipeline between the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk and Turkey's Mediterranean port city of Ceyhan.
