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Turkmen Leader Orders Way to Put Out the ‘Gates of Hell’: RIA

Turkmen Leader Orders Way to Put Out the ‘Gates of Hell’: RIA

Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov ordered to invent a way to extinguish a giant gas crater in the Karakum desert known as the “Gates of Hell”, RIA Novosti reports citing Turkmen state TV.

  • Natural gas has been burning for years in the Darwaza area, harming the environment and the health of the local population, Berdymukhamedov noted during the cabinet meeting, according to RIA
  • Turkmenistan is also losing valuable commodity which it could sell abroad
  • Berdymukhamedov ordered to bring in foreign experts to solving this problem if necessary
  • NOTE: “Gates of Hell” has burned gas continuously for more than 40 years since a drilling accident

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