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Fire in Azerbaijan main gas pipeline

30 March 2011 [11:52] - TODAY.AZ
A fire blazed up in the main gas pipeline in Azerbaijan Tuesday evening, the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

The fire was caused by an accident in the part of the 500-mm-diameter pipeline passing through the Garadagh district of Baku and fuel oil around caught fire which covered 45-square-meter area.

Gas refinery workers managed to stop the gas transportation via the pipeline. Firefighters, in their turn, extinguished the fire at about 20.30 and saved the oil and gas pipelines.


/APA/
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