IRAQ: OIL PIPELINE DESTROYED BY SABOTEURS STILL BURNING

Record ID: 344813

  • Title: IRAQ: OIL PIPELINE DESTROYED BY SABOTEURS STILL BURNING
  • Date: 19th April 2003
  • Summary: (W3) AL-DOURA, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 19, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE VIEW OF BURNING OIL REFINERY 00.06 2. FLAMES FROM BURNING OIL SEEPING FROM BURST PIPES 00.27 3. LOCAL VILLAGERS WALKING OVER PIPELINE, USING IT AS A BRIDGE OVER A STREAM 00.41 4. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LOCAL VILLAGER MOHAMMED ABBAS SAYING: "The saboteurs blasted the oil pipeline. We have no electricity, no water and we have to keep watch over our houses all night to prevent looters taking our belongings." 00.51 5. MORE FLAMES 01.09 6. WIDE VIEW OF REFINERY 01.18 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th May 2003 13:00
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  • Location: AL-DOURA IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA2Z9H4IJ91CMEX67N1JXMVLG2J
  • Story Text: An oil pipeline which has been destroyed by saboteurs
    in Iraq is still burning. The Nuft Khana pipeline brings crude
    oil into the main refinery at Al-Doura in the Iraqi capital,
    Baghdad.



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