A private security official says the Nigerian military has repelled an attack on a gas plant in the restive, oil-producing south.The official said two attackers died in the fighting early Saturday at the production facility in Delta State. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to company prohibitions on dealings with the media.
A spokesman for he region's most potent militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, told The Associated Press in an e-mail it was involved in the fighting but gave no details. The group called off a monthslong unilateral cease-fire last week.