ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Kurdish militants with the Kurdistan Workers' Party are believed responsible for an attack on an oil pipeline that killed two people, Ankara said.
A land mine detonated near the pipeline in southeastern Turkey, causing an explosion on the oil pipeline running from the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Two people were killed in the attack blamed on the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Turkish news agency Hurriyet reports, citing area security officials.
The PKK claimed responsibility for a 2008 attack on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, one of the longest in the world. Oil from BTC was shut off for more than two weeks following the blast.
Authorities closed the 600-mile oil pipeline running from oil fields in northern Iraq following the latest attack.
The PKK has been locked in a war with Ankara since the 1980s. The group was blamed for several attacks on military installations earlier this year.
