Published June 10, 2016
Nigerian militants say they have blown up another crude pipeline owned by Italian oil company Agip.
The Niger Delta Avengers announced the early-morning blast in Bayelsa state in a tweet Friday.
The latest blast comes a few days after the militants rejected the government's offer of peace talks. Nigeria's government had ordered the military to halt attacks in the oil-producing south and urged the militants to halt the bombings to allow a dialogue.
But the militants say they will not negotiate.
They also have blown up installations of Dutch-British Shell and U.S.-based oil company Chevron, halving Nigeria's production to about 1.2 million barrels a day.
The assaults have ended years of relative peace in the delta and have lost Nigeria its place as Africa's biggest oil producer to Angola.
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