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 LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - A previously unknown Nigerian militant group claimed responsibility Friday for kidnapping four foreign oil workers and blowing up a pipeline — dual attacks that cut Nigeria's oil output by 10 percent.
Gunmen on Wednesday stormed an offshore oil platform run by Royal Dutch Shell in the volatile Niger Delta and seized the workers — an American, a Briton, a Bulgarian and a Honduran.
In a phone call to The Associated Press in Lagos, a man who identified himself as Brutus Etikpaden said his group carried out the kidnapping and an attack on an oil pipeline early Thursday.
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