Huge flames billowed from a pipeline supplying gas from Egypt to Israel near the Gaza Strip on Saturday after an explosion which officials blame on saboteurs. Gas supplies to Israel and Jordan have been cut.
As protests against President Hosni Mubarak entered their 12th day, officials say that attackers planted explosives on the pipeline in the town of Lihfen in the Sheikh Zuwayed area of the Sinai peninsula, which borders on the Palestinian territory of Gaza.
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