About 40 tons of oil spilled Monday from a land pipeline carrying crude from the port of Ashkelon in southern Israel to refineries in the northern city of Haifa, a fire department spokesman said.

Hezi Levy said a factory owner just south of Haifa called in a complaint that oil was leaking into his building, alerting authorities to the break. The pipeline company stopped the flow, and Levy said a cleanup was under way.

There was no immediate word about what caused the leak in the 119-mile-long pipeline.

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