Gunmen blew up the gas pipeline that links Yemen's block 18 to the liquefied natural gas terminal at Balhaf on the Gulf of Aden earlier this year, Reuters reported.

Reuters reported this attack was retaliation for a US drone attack that killed at least five suspected al Qaeda militants hours earlier.

Yemen's oil and gas pipelines have been repeatedly sabotaged since anti-government protests last year created a power vacuum that militants have exploited.

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