CAIRO, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and six others injured on Sunday during routine maintenance work on a gas pipeline in Egypt's Ismailia Governorate, east of Cairo, the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources said.
In a statement, the ministry reported that emergency teams rushed to the Abu Sultan area after receiving a report of a "loud noise" at 6:40 p.m. local time (1540 GMT).
