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2 oil-transfer facilities occupied in Nigeria |
| Home | (The Associated Press) - WARRI, Nigeria: Hundreds of angry villagers chased workers away from an oil-transfer facility Monday in restive southern Nigeria and occupied the premises to try to get money they say they are owed by the oil industry, officials said. Elsewhere in the Niger Delta, gunmen were holding some two dozen Nigerian workers and security forces hostage at another flowstation that had been overrun Sunday. Authorities had not been able to access the interior of that facility and had no information on any casualties among the hostages, said Brig. Gen. Lawrence Ngubane, a military commander in the Niger Delta. |