Nigeria: Fresh attacks on oil installations

Militants holding nine foreign hostages in southern Nigeria destroyed an oil pipeline and blew up a boat in violence that has cut about 20% of crude production in Africa's oil giant.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said they attacked a Shell-operated oil-pipeline switching station known as a "manifold" and a military houseboat in the oil-rich southern region. "Both were destroyed with explosives," the group said in an email.

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