Pipeline Blast Halts Egyptian Gas to Israel, Ministry Says
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Egypt suspended natural-gas exports to Israel and Jordan for the second time this year after saboteurs blew up a monitoring room in the pipeline network that transports the fuel, the Oil Ministry said.
“Unidentified attackers bombed the station around dawn,” Hamdi Abdel Aziz, a ministry spokesman, said by telephone today in Cairo, reading out a statement citing Magdi Tawfik, chairman of Egyptian Natural Gas Co. “Exports to Israel and Jordan were halted as were supplies to the local market.”