Unknown gunmen exploded on Tuesday the gas pipeline feeding Arish city and its industrial zone and the main pipeline of Jordan on Tuesday.
As of Wednesday morning, the fire has not yet been contained. A team of the company owning the pipeline headed there to fix it and close the valves.
The blast is the fourth since ouster of former President Mohamed Morsy on 3 July.
Egypt’s gas pipeline has been bombed 21 times since the 2011 uprising.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm