Pipeline bursts in Turkey

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Kurdish militants claimed responsibility for blasts on a Turkish oil pipeline on Thursday that temporarily cut off the flow of Iraqi oil from Kirkuk.

Turkish officials reported as many as three explosions which sparked a fire along pipelines that carry Iraqi crude to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. No injuries were

reported.

The Firat news agency said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said it had carried out the attack.

Firat has close links to the PKK, which is fighting for regional autonomy for Kurds in Turkey's southeast,