Martinstopgist "News At Your Fingertips"
Barely three weeks after an ambush on a military houseboat that
killed two in Southern Ijaw creeks in Bayelsa, suspected militants have
attacked a tugboat in the same area and killed three crew members.
Suspected Niger Delta militants had on August 28 ambushed a houseboat
operated by the Joint Task Force and killed a soldier and a civilian
crew member.
An oil services vessel with a combined team of security escort on
board and civilians was attacked on Friday, September 22, by suspected
sea pirates at Ekebiri Waterways in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area
of Bayelsa.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that two of the victims of the
incident which occurred on Friday were security escorts and a civilian
crew member of the tugboat towing a vessel.
Mr Asinim Butswat, Police Public Relations Officer for Bayelsa
Command who confirmed the incident said that one police operative was
still missing as his remains has yet to be recovered.
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