The main Niger Delta militant movement confirmed Monday that it traded shots with the Nigerian army in the vicinity of an Eni SpA (E) oil terminal over the weekend but it denied it was a planned attack.

"It was not a planned attack but an exchange of fire between our boys and the army," a spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, said Monday in an email to Dow Jones Newswires.

A Nigerian army spokesman said Sunday that an attack on soldiers guarding the Twon Brass terminal, operated by Agip SpA, a unit of Eni, had been foiled.

By Benoit Faucon, Dow Jones Newswires; +44-20-7842-9266; benoit.faucon@dowjones.com
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