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Nigerian navy attacked at Shell oil facility
Unknown gunmen attacked a navy houseboat in southern Nigeria protecting a Royal Dutch Shell crude oil flow station on Friday, a military spokesman said.
- Agencies
- Published: 11:58 November 21, 2008
Port Harcourt: Unknown gunmen attacked a navy houseboat in southern Nigeria protecting a Royal Dutch Shell crude oil flow station on Friday, a military spokesman said.
The attack at the Nembe Creek flow station in Bayelsa state in the western Niger Delta took place at around 3am (0200 GMT), Rabe Abubakar, spokesman for the joint military task force said. He said the Shell facility itself was not damaged.
"There is no report so far of any (deaths) but we are collecting more details," Abubakar said.
A security source working in the oil industry said four naval personnel were injured and receiving treatment while three more were unaccounted for.
Recent attacks by militants on oil facilities in the Niger Delta had largely been focused on Rivers state in the eastern Niger Delta but there have been a growing number of violent incidents in Bayelsa and Delta states to the west.
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