A major pipeline which delivers crude oil to the Brass export terminal was blown up
at the Nembe creek in Bayelsa state this morning Friday, June 19, 2009 at about
0300Hrs by heavily armed fighters from the Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta (MEND).

The pipeline belongs to Agip.

Our fighters encountered a military gunboat and all the soldiers numbering seven (7)
were dispossessed of their weapons. The gunboat was also stripped of its weapons
before it was disabled by explosives.

The soldiers pleaded for their lives to be spared and we did.