Total: 3 guards killed in Nigeria attack

LAGOS, Nigeria – Armed men attacked a Total SA oil pumping station in Nigeria in an overnight raid that left three security guards dead and shut down the facility, a company official said Thursday.

The Total official in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja spoke anonymously because the information had not yet been cleared for public release.

He said the pumping station in the Obagi oil field, which normally produces about 50,000 barrels a day, had been shut down. He said he did not have further details.

Two private security contractors had previously reported an attack by armed men on the Total SA oil installation in southern Rivers state. They also spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.

AP