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Updated: 11:43, Sunday, 20 June 2004
It is reported that there has been an explosion at a pipeline in southern Russia used to export oil from Azerbaijan, causing a fire and sending tonnes of crude spewing out.
It is reported that there has been an explosion at a pipeline in southern Russia used to export oil from Azerbaijan, causing a fire and sending tonnes of crude oil spewing out.
The explosion occurred in the southern Russian region of Dagestan, which borders Chechnya.
About two and a half million tonnes of Azeri oil is pumped through the pipeline every year to a Russian Black Sea port and then shipped to Western markets.
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