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Militants Blow up NNPC Pipeline

Monday, July 18, 2016

In southwest Nigeria reports from local police have militants blowing up a state-owned gas pipeline. This is the first attack seen in Nigeria’s southwest region.

Deputy Superintendent Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the police spokesman for Ogun state, told the Associated Press on July 14 that “hoodlums” pretending to carry out repairs planted dynamite and blew up a major gas pipeline owned by NNPC.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.


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