Rebels blow up Colombia oil pipeline

Rebels: Farc blamed for pipeline attack in Colombia port town

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By Luke Johnson & news reports

 20 August 2012 16:55 GMT

Local authorities have accused militant rebels of blowing up an oil pipeline in south-western Colombia, the latest attack on energy infrastructure in the South American country, according to a report.

Police said fighters with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) attacked the 300-kilometre Transandean pipeline early on Sunday morning near the port city of Tumaco, BBC reported.

State-owned Ecopetrol said the attack had forced it to stop pumping oil through the pipeline, which starts in neighbouring Ecuador and terminates in Tumaco, BBC said.

Tumaco has been without power for nearly two weeks following an earlier rebel attack on the city's electricity grid. Booby traps have slowed repairs in the area. Two electricity workers and an indigenous guide were killed by land mines…

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