Gazprom hikes gas supply after blasts

Russian energy giant Gazprom increased its natural gas supply to Turkey by 50 percent on Oct. 19, hours after an attack on Iranian-Turkish gas pipeline halted gas flow from the Islamic Republic, Hurriyet reports on Saturday. 

Some 28 Turkish soldiers were wounded when suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) detonated explosives planted at the pipeline between the eastern provinces of Ağrı and Erzurum, as a military vehicle was passing by late Oct. 18. One soldier was transferred to an Erzurum hospital with serious third degree burns, while others sustained minor injuries and were transferred to nearby hospitals.

A fire broke out due to the blast, but was subsequently extinguished after the flow of gas in the pipeline was cut off.