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 PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Royal Dutch Shell evacuated staff from two oil installations in southern Nigeria and the military boosted troop levels in the volatile area Tuesday after a dozen village elders were killed in a riverboat attack, officials said.
Bisi Ojediran, a spokesman for Shell PLC, said only a skeleton crew remained at the two evacuated pipeline hubs in the Niger Delta region, a vast area of mangrove swamps where all of the crude in Africa's largest producer is pumped.
Production had not been affected by the clashes, which Ojediran characterized as a community fight. He gave no details of how many staff were evacuated.
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