Rebels Attack Gas Line Causing Fire, Blackout in Damascus

Terrorists targeted a key gas line in the countryside of the capital Damascus Friday evening, causing a huge fire and a major blackout in Damascus and the southern region in general, the country's oil minister Sulaiman Abbas told the official SANA news agency, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

The terrorists targeted the Arab Gas pipeline in al-Baitarieh area in the countryside of Damascus, causing a huge fire that lit up the dark sky of Damascus and halted the gas flow into electricity-generating stations in the southern region of Syria.

Simultaneously, other radical rebels targeted another key power line in the coastal city of Banyas, also causing electricity outage in that area.

The attacks are the latest in a series of other attacks by the al-Qaida-linked rebels who have been focusing on the country's infrastructures amid governmental efforts to keep the citizens' necessities.

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