Three Syrian power plants out of service after gas pipeline explosion: Media - Al Arabiya English
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- ثلاث محطات للطاقة السورية خارج الخدمة بعد انفجار خط أنابيب الغاز: وسائط الإعلام - العربية
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- Three Syrian power plants out of service after gas pipeline explosion: Media - Al Arabiya English
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A blast at a gas pipeline near the Syrian capital Damascus late Wednesday sparked a massive fire and put three power stations out of service.
It came two days after an explosion caused by sabotage at a gas pipeline in the country’s east.
The official SANA news agency first reported Wednesday’s explosion saying a “detonation was heard in Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus.”
A government source told AFP it was an “explosion in a gas pipeline near the Tishrin power plant” that sparked a “huge fire.”
Tishrin is a 630-megawatt hydropower project located on the Euphrates River.
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