Another natural gas pipeline has been targeted with explosives in Canada's British Columbia province, after three similar incidents occurred three months ago, police said Monday.
Workers found Sunday that a metering shed on an EnCanada pipeline near the community of Tomslake was partly destroyed in the "deliberate explosion," but there were no injuries or gas leakage as a result of the blast, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement.
It is the latest in a string of what police say are intentional attacks against EnCana, one of the largest gas and oil companies in the world.
The other explosions occurred in October, at other nearby EnCana facilities. In all cases, damage has been minimal and no one has been hurt.
The latest blast is being probed by investigators from the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, the Explosives Disposal Unit and Forensic Identification.
Tomslake is a small, rural community located just west of the B.C.-Alberta border.
The RCMP believed local perpetrators, who had local knowledge of the area, were behind the blasts. But the motives of the blasts are unclear.
Source:Xinhua
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