(NIGERIA) Again, three soldiers attached to the Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, have been ambushed and killed by gunmen operating along the waterways of Bayelsa State.
THE PUNCH learnt that the soldiers were killed on Tuesday, barely four days after the same number of JTF’s soldiers lost their lives in a pirate attack along Santa Barbara, a notorious river in Nembe area of the state.
In the Santa Barbara incident, which took place on Sunday, the sea robbers seized a military gunboat used by the victims to escort items from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to Brass terminal owned by a multinational oil company.
For Tuesday incident, it was learnt that before JTF search-and-rescue team could recover the bodies of the Brass-bound soldiers, gunmen, suspected to be sea robbers launched a fresh attack on soldiers at Azagbene in Ekeremor LGA.
It was further learnt that a boat conveying the soldiers to their routine duties in the area came under attack about 11.30am on Tuesday.
A security source, who pleaded, anonymity said after wasting the lives of the soldiers, the gunmen carted away their rifles with 180 ammunition.
He also said the civilian driver of the boat was not spared as he was also killed by the hoodlums. He said, “This is a bad time for soldiers. Just four days after three soldiers whose corpses have yet to be found were killed, three more JTF’s soldiers were also attacked and killed in similar circumstances on Tuesday.
REPORT FROM THE PUNCH
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