Nigerian militants say no hand in killing American

LAGOS, May 10 (Reuters) A Nigerian militant group which is waging a five-month-old campaign against the oil industry said it had no hand in the killing of a U.S. oil executive today.

In an e-mail response to Reuters, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said it was not involved in the shooting of an executive of Baker Hughes by a gunman on a motorcycle in the southern city of Port Harcourt.

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