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Casket-carrying protesters lay siege to Shell facility in Bayelsa

Vanguard: "Activities at the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Kolo Creek Logistics base, in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa state was disrupted in the early hours of Thursday, when aggrieved natives from its four host communities armed with a casket lay laid siege to the facility in protest over the alleged insensitivity of the company to their plight."

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