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| Nigeria militants seize seven oil workers |
| 2010-11-18 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] Nigeria's main bully boy group said today it had seized seven oil workers in a raid on an ExxonMobil facility and threatened a major attack while claiming the military fired rockets at one of its camps. The offshore raid was the latest such incident in recent months in the Niger Delta, the heart of the country's huge oil industry, and the military warned of action at the weekend, saying residents near bully boy camps should clear out. "The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta ... a confederation of bands of bandidos portraying itself of a political organization grabbing for Nigeria's oil boodle ... (MEND) confirms the attack on the ExxonMobil Ibeno oil facility in Akwa Ibom state... was carried out by its fighters. "Seven local employees were kidnapped," it said in a statement in apparent reference to the weekend attack staged by gunnies on an offshore platform operated by US oil giant ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil's Nigerian branch on Monday confirmed one of its offshore facilities was boarded by unknown armed persons in the evening of Sunday. |
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