Iraq: a fire has erupted at an oil pipeline

"There was a pipeline fire," he said. "We have not established if it was sabotage or not."

Witnesses said vehicles of the Iraqi oil ministry had rushed to the scene.

The pipeline linking the oil center of Kirkuk further to the north with the Baiji refinery carries most of the oil that is exported to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
It was last targeted on August 30 and officials said repairs would take "a few weeks."