Twenty-eight Turkish soldiers were wounded and Iranian gas supplies to Turkey interrupted Friday after Kurdish rebels attacked a pipeline linking the two countries

Twenty-eight Turkish soldiers were wounded and Iranian gas supplies to Turkey interrupted Friday after Kurdish rebels attacked a pipeline linking the two countries, media reports said.
  
"The terrorists attacked the gas pipeline from Iran near the village of Turkeli, in the (eastern) Eleskirt district,” provincial governor Mehmet Tekinarslan told Anatolia news agency, using a term generally applied to members of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
  
"After the explosion some comrades were wounded by fire," he added. One of the 28 wounded suffered serious burns. The fire from the blast had been extinguished.
  
NTV news channel said that after the attack overnight Thursday Iranian gas supplies through the pipeline were interrupted.