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Article: Nigerian militants attack Shell, Agip pipelines in Bayelsa state
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 8, 2009
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Nigerian militants attack Shell, Agip pipelines in Bayelsa state
LAGOS, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's major militant group in the
oil rich Niger Delta region the Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta (MEND) said on Wednesday it had attacked oil pipelines
operated by Royal Dutch Shell and the Italian firm Agip in southeast
Nigeria's Bayelsa State.
"The Agip pipeline, which connects the Agip Brass terminal, was
sabotaged at Nembe creek, while the Shell Nembe creek line was done
at Asawo village," the group's spokesman Jomo Gbomo said in an e-
mail statement reaching here.
"The plague of sabotage descended heavily on major Shell and Agip
crude trunk lines in Bayelsa state ...