LAGOS (AFX) – Royal Dutch Shell said that “a number of casualties” were sustained when militants raided its gas installation in southern Nigeria today, and kidnapped five South Koreans.
“The SDPC (Shell Petroleum Development Company) regretfully understood that there have been a number of casualties and that five Korean contractor staff (working for Daewoo and Kogas) have been abducted,” Shell said in a statement.
“The Cawthorne Channel Gas Plant in SDPC’s eastern area of operations was in the early hours of Wednesday attacked by an armed group.
“The plant has been shut down pending assessment of any damage, resulting in the loss of some 70 million standard cubic feet per day of gas production,” the statement said.
“We will be taking all necessary steps to assist the Nigerian authorities and contractor companies in obtaining their safe release.”
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it had attacked the gas plant in southern Nigeria this morning in response to a court decision earlier in the day to deny bail to guerrilla leader Mujahid Dokubo Asari.
MEND said it was prepared to free the hostages in exchange for the release of Asari, the leader of the illegal Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, who was arrested in September last year and is standing trial for treason.
Nigerian authorities said at least three security force members died in the attack and four others were injured, while MEND said it lost one man and had two casualties.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
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