WORLD BRIEFING / IRELAND
Fifteen masked men armed with steel pipes, chains and nail-studded clubs ransacked a Shell pipeline project, Irish police said.
The vandals smashed security fences and hijacked a construction vehicle at Shell’s site on the remote Glengad beach of County Mayo’s Atlantic coast, police said.
Unarmed security guards retreated when confronted by the attackers, and one guard suffered an arm injury when he was struck by a steel pipe, authorities said. No one has been arrested.
The government and environmental officials have approved Shell’s plan to pipe natural gas from an untapped field 50 miles offshore. But Shell has spent years battling opponents in and out of court.
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