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Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 03:00
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Environment [2]
Issue Number: 
110 [3]
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Crude oil from a ruptured pipeline oozed across farms and into a creek in southern Nigeria, unleashed by what residents and officials said Monday was tampering by unidentified saboteurs. A spokesman for Shell's Nigerian subsidiary said workers had found signs of "excavations" and "disturbed vegetation" surrounding the broken pipeline at Ubianuge village, near the oil port of Warri.

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Land & Environment [4]
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Country: 
Nigeria [6]

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