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CAIRO — Egypt’s natural gas pipeline has again been bombed.

An image grab taken from Egyptian state television shows what the channel said is a flame rising from the site of an attack on a gas pipeline. /AFP/Al-Masriya TV — An image grab taken from Egyptian TV shows what the channel said is a flame rising from the site of an Aug. 7 attack on a gas pipeline. /AFP/Al-Masriya TV

Egyptian sources said unidentified attackers blew up the Arab Gas Pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula on Aug. 7.

The sources said this marked the eighth attack on the pipeline in 2014.

The bombing was said to have taken place near Sheik Zweid, a town next to the Sinai border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

The latest attack, detonated by remote control, again suspended gas supplies to neighboring Jordan.

The attacks have been attributed to Bedouin and Al Qaida-aligned insurgents as part of the revolt in Sinai. The sources said nobody was injured in the latest bombing.

Arab Gas Pipeline, Egyptian gas pipeline bombed for eighth time this year, Sheik Zweid, Sinai Peninsula

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