"An armed terrorist group targeted in a sabotage operation the pipeline of Tal al-Shor, west of Homs," Syria's third-largest city, SANA said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based activist network, also reported the kaboom of "an oil pipeline in Homs which transports crude to the (central) city's refinery from eastern Syria."
It gave no cause for the blast.
The kaboom is the third reported attack on energy infrastructure since the outbreak of an unprecedented protest movement against the regime of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
in mid-March.
On July 13, activists said a gas pipeline went
kaboom!in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, home to Syria's oil and gas fields.
And on July 29, SANA reported an attack by a subversive group against an oil pipeline near Homs.
According to an industry expert in Damascus
...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
, Syria's oil output has slumped to 120,000 barrels per day from 340,000 bpd before the unrest due to narrowing exports in line with sanctions against Assad's regime.
The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
estimates more than 4,000 people have been killed since mid-March in the regime crackdown's on dissent.
Damascus blames the unrest on "armed terrorist groups" and has unleashed military operations against border towns and protest hubs.