Posted on 07/31/2003 11:38:34 PM PDT by HAL9000
A pipeline on fire close to the refinery of Baïji, in the north of Iraq
A pipeline located close to the refinery of Baïji, to 200 km in the north of Baghdad, was on fire Friday morning, noted a journalist of the AFP.
"I heard Thursday evening an explosion after the prayer towards 20H00", indicated Ali Jassan, an inhabitant of district Al-Karada of Baïji, located not far from the pipeline.
Significant black fume released Friday morning from the pipeline, preventing from approaching the place of the disaster, according to the journalist of the AFP.
American helicopters flew over the pipeline Friday.
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