Several Repeated Attacks on Oil Piplines Southeast Yemen

YemenExtra

SH.A.

Unidentified gunmen attacked the oil pipeline passing from al-Bayad area, Southeast Yemen, which transfers the oil from Uqla field to Ayath area of Jardan district and then heads to Noshayma oil port of Radhom district, northeast of Ataq city, according to local sources.

Sources said that the rising smoke east of Ataq district caused by an oil leakage in the pipeline and that the leakage was contained.

The oil pipeline has been subjected to several repeated attacks, as well as targeting a number of trucks loaded with oil in the province during the past days.