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ISTANBUL (Reuters) -- Kurdish guerrillas have
staged a bomb attack on an oil pipeline in southeast
Turkey, causing some damage in the third attack of
its kind in three days, CNN Turk said on Tuesday.
The attack occurred near a village in the province
of Batman, where CNN Turk said the rebels sabotaged
a pipeline belonging to the state TPAO oil company.
Some 200 barrels of oil seeped onto the surrounding
area as a result of the latest sabotage.
It was not clear exactly when the last attack
happened.
Employees from TPAO and the state pipeline company
Botas repaired the damage and the spilled oil was
transported back to a Botas installation.
The CNN Turk television channel said on its website
that an operation had been carried out to catch the
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels believed to be
behind the attack.
The PKK launched a violent separatist campaign for
an ethnic homeland in the southeast of the country
in 1984. More than 30,000 people have died in the
conflict.
Clashes subsided after the 1999 capture of PKK
leader Abdullah Ocalan, but there has been a
resurgence of attacks since the PKK ended a
unilateral ceasefire in June.
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