MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The flow of natural gas to Armenia and North Caucasus republics resumed Monday following a bomb scare on pipelines, Gazprom announced Tuesday.
Emergency crews scrambled to deactivate two bombs discovered on a natural gas pipeline in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia. Representatives from Gazprom described the bombs as "based on hand grenades."
Armenia gets nearly 230 million cubic feet of natural gas per day from Russian through the pipeline network crossing Georgian territory through the republics of North Ossetia and Ingushetia.
Gazprom announced Tuesday that gas transits had "resumed in full" by late Monday evening, Russia's state-run news service RIA Novosti reports.
The predominately Muslim region of Ingushetia borders Chechnya. Islamic rebels in the region have fought with pro-Kremlin authorities and Russian security forces in recent months.
Investigators said, however, that it was unclear who planted the devices.
