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The blast which occurred south of Mosul in al-Hadhar district, 280 km north of Baghdad, made a hole in the pipeline which carries a quarter of Iraq's crude exports.
Updated : Apr 22, 2010, 02:43 PM IST
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.