A section of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline linking Iraq and Turkey has been repaired after a three-day fire and has resumed carrying oil, the Anatolian Agency reported on Monday.
Workers have finished the repairs after putting out the fire triggered by an explosion Friday near the town of Midyat, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Iraqi border, pipeline authorities were quoted by the agency as saying.
Military sources in the region earlier told that they had established control in the affected area and that the blast appeared to have been caused by sabotage.
Turkish authorities say the terror organization, PKK, was responsible for the attack.
Anatolian Agency said oil was being pumped Monday through the pipeline connecting oil fields around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk with the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Officials at Turkey's state pipeline company BOTAS did not immediately comment.
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