Suspected al-Qaeda militants blew up a gas pipeline Thursday night in the eastern Yemeni province of Shabwa, the Interior and Defense Ministry said.

This is the third attack against oil and gas facilities in the impoverished country within a month.

The pipeline is used for transferring liquefied natural gas from Yemen’s Mareb province to Belhaf terminal was bombed in al-Akla district of Shabwa province.

The attack stopped the country’s export of gas.