Bomb damaged Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline: Officials

A bomb attack in the northern province of Nineveh damaged the Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline which carries a quarter of Iraq's crude exports, an Iraqi oil official and police said on Thursday.                            

The blast which occurred south of Mosul in al-Hadhar district, 280 km (175 miles) north of Baghdad, made a hole in the pipeline, a police source told Reuters.                                           

An Iraqi oil official said oil exports via the pipeline were expected to take about three days to resume.