Rebels in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta blew up three oil wells operated by Royal Dutch Shell on Saturday, their fifth attack in recent weeks against the petroleum industry, security sources said. Shell confirmed the report.

The attack on the Diebu flow station in southern Bayelsa state came a day after a Nigerian court ordered the trial of rebel leader Henry Okah to take place behind closed doors, prompting a threat of reprisals from the rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

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