Blast hits Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel

Jihadist group has blown up a pipeline in the North Sinai that supplies Israel and Jordan with gas, the latest in a series of attacks in the area, following "Gasco" company's announcement of exporting gas to Israel. Witnesses in North Sinai said that a group of six armed men cut through the barbed wire around the gas terminal near the town of al-Arish and entered from the back. They then placed an explosive device where the bombing took place moments later. They got back into the car that was waiting for them and fled the scene. The secretary general of the North Sinai governorate said at least two people were injured from the explosion which also damaged nearby crops and farmland. This is the 13th time for the Egyptian pipeline to be blown up since 2011, which came after resuming the transfer of gas to Israel and Jordan as well as statements of pumping gas to Gaza Strip.