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Militants youths hold 30 Shell employees

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    Militant youths in the southern Delta State town of Udu have been holding 34 Shell employees and four soldiers hostages and have shut down a gas plant that supplies electricity to the nation’s only power utility, news organisations reported on Tuesday, quoting a Shell company spokesman.

    Shell said the youths stormed its facilities at the Utorogu Gas Plant on Monday. The company’s spokesman for the Western Division, Harriman Oyofo, said the youths were demanding that Shell surface a road in the area, ‘The Guardian’ reported.

    AFP reported that the US $2.7-million plant supplies gas to the state-run electricity company station at Egbin, near Lagos.

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