Police in Ludwigshafen said the explosion outside a house in the city happened midday Thursday. Gas transport company Gascade said it wasn't clear why the gas pipe, part of a 57-kilometer (35-mile) pipeline that leads southward to the city of Karlsruhe, was damaged during work that it commissioned. Gas then leaked and caught fire. http://www.politicalforum.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=59 --------- pipe belongs to Gascade, what belongs to russian gazprom and german BASF
