Repair teams have rounded up repairs of a gas pipeline in the Caucasian region of North Ossetia that was damaged on the night from Friday to Saturday by a car which veered off an automobile road and bumped into it, Itar-Tass reported. The road accident caused an outage of gas supplies to a whole town with a population of about 1,200 people, including some 300 children. After 14:00 hours Saturday, supplies to Stavdurt, the affected population center resumed, said Yulia Starchenko, the press secretary of North Ossetia's Emergency Situations Ministry. “Repair workers replaced more than 50 meters of the damaged pipe by 14:00 hours and did its blow-down after that,” she said. They got down to their job after the smashed car had been removed from the site of the crash and the pipeline's rupture. --SPA
