Yemen says foils attempt to bomb oil pipeline

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni forces have foiled an attempt to blow up a crude oil pipeline in the Marib province and arrested a number of “saboteurs,” the official Yemeni news agency Saba said on Sunday.

“Interrogations are under way, but the initial results indicate that this group is linked to the terrorist bombing of the pipeline last year,” Saba said, citing the head of security in the province.


In November, tribesmen blew up a pipeline that carries crude oil from the Marib oil basin to storage tanks at the Ras Issa terminal for export. No one was harmed in the bombing, which took place in a desert area in the eastern Marib province.

Officials said at the time that the perpetrators were not linked to Islamist militants. Tribesmen sometimes kidnap holidaymakers and foreigners working in Yemen to press for better schools, roads and services or the release of prisoners.

Reuters