Wednesday to Thursday night witnessed the explosion by an unknown terrorist group of a gas pipe providing Jijel Wilaya with natural gas from Skikda industrial zone gas refinery. According to local sources, the criminal attack has damaged the pipe crossing the forest area in Ain Sebih heights on the borders between Skikda and Jijel Wilayas. The explosion resulted in the leak of considerable natural gas quantities in addition to fear and panic of the neighbouring areas citizens who wondered about the explosion source.
Just after the explosion, Army forces rushed to the area and besieged it allowing Skikda and Jijel civil protection brigades to get into it. According to civil protection sources, the situation has been controlled after all risk lifting, while Sonelgaz teams are still repairing the pipe under the tight control of Army forces and civil protection. It is worth noting that the terrorist explosion of the gas pipe which is likely to be perpetrated by the Salafist Group of Preaching and Combat, GSPC, adopting recently the name of al Qaeda organization in the Islamic Maghreb. This coincides with Army forces led operations to make secure the sensitive points of gas and oil pipes from Skikda Wilaya. |