Reuters) – Gunmen in southern Nigeria attacked an oil facility belonging to Canada’s Addax Petroleum on Monday, killing at least one person, in the second such attack on the firm in as many days, the Nigerian navy said.
“There was a second attack off Qua Iboe river on an Addax facility today. One civilian was killed, two injured. One naval personnel was injured too,” Nigerian navy spokesman Henry Babalola said.
Strikes on oil facilities are frequent in the labyrinthine creeks of the Niger Delta, home to Africa’s biggest oil industry, and initial reports of attacks are often confused.
A senior state security official in the region, who asked not to be named, said the latest attack had targeted an Addax vessel rather than an oil facility and that one navy seaman had been killed and three wounded.
Addax officials were not immediately available for comment