NIGC Denies Reports on Personnel Death in Iraq
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A spokesman of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) on Saturday denied recent media reports that four of the company’s staff have been killed in Iraq.
Majid Boujarzadeh told the Tasnim News Agency that none of NIGC personnel are in Iraq, and added that the individuals killed in the Saturday terrorist attack near the city of Baqubah, northern Iraq, were not the company’s personnel.
He said the NIGC is not involved in the construction of the gas pipeline in the area.
Boujarzadeh, however, stated that the victims of the attack were probably Iranian citizens.
The Iraqi news network al-Sumaria earlier on Saturday quoted Iraqi security forces as saying that four workers with an Iranian company constructing the gas pipeline in the Iraqi province of Diyala were killed after an explosive device was detonated on a roadside out of Baqubah.
Last December, masked gunmen affiliated to the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) shot dead 25 people, including 20 Iranians, working on a pipeline outside the northeastern Iraqi town of Muqdadiya, some 80 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. Five other Iranians and two Iraqis were injured in the terrorist attack.
