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1st LD: IS militants blow up gas pipelines in Syria's Homs

Xinhua, February 7, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Islamic State (IS) group blew up gas pipelines of the Hayan gas field in the central province of Homs on Monday, causing huge fire, state TV said.

The IS militants blew the pipelines to the north, east and western flanks of the gas field, said the report, telling no further details.

Hayan gas field is the largest production facility of gas feeding electricity station in central and southern Syria.

Its production is estimated at three million cubic meters of gas daily. The facility's establishment cost the government over 280 million Euros.

IS stormed the facility when it overran, for the second time, the ancient city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs in last December.

In January, IS' Amaq news agency posted photos in what it said was bombing of Hayan field, as sources in the Oil Ministry in Syria said then that the photos seemed real, but the bombing had not yet been confirmed. Endit