Nigerian militants have attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil flow station on Monday in a third day of heavy fighting with security forces in the Niger Delta region.
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Nigeria 'shock' after oil attack ... to evacuate the delta immediately, threatening to further disrupt production in the world's eighth largest oil exporter. A military spokesman said the flow station was on fire after the attack. In early 2006, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta launched a campaign of violence, shutting a fifth of the OPEC member's oil output.
(Deutsche Welle)
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