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/ 30 November 2004

Villagers claim 7 shot in Shell protest

Grieving relatives in the Niger Delta jungle river port of Ojobo have accused Nigerian soldiers of shooting dead seven unarmed demonstrators during a community protest on an oil rig operated for the Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell.
But army spokesman Colonel Yusuf Mohammed said: ”They are all telling lies. The elders were having a meeting with the oil company when the youths disrupted them. The soldiers came to disperse them and only some few of them were injured.”