Six Blasts Rip Apart Mexican Oil Pipelines
Update at Bottom
This news just came in. I don’t have details yet, but I’ll post more about it as details become available.
***Update 08:25 CDT 09/10/07:***
Mexico Oil Pipeline Blasts Believed to Be Sabotage
MEXICO CITY — Six explosions ripped apart pipelines for Mexico’s state oil monopoly early Monday, the company said. The blasts were believed to be sabotage and 12,000 people were evacuated afterward.
A small, left-wing guerrilla group claimed to have attacked a major gas pipeline for the Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, in July and at the time at least a dozen major companies were forced to suspend or scale back operations.
Pemex issued a statement saying it believed Monday’s explosions were also sabotage. Government officials said 12,000 people were evacuated after the blasts.
