UMMAH (NIGERIA)
Militants freed 125 suspected Criminal When the Stormed A police complex in the oil capital port Harcourt Nigerian police said.
2 bystanders were killed between miltants And Security Force in the dencely populated old part of the city during which the militants torched a police building and obout 10 vehicle.
"They freed 105 inmates from the criminal investigation deportment and 20 from the central police station," said police spokeswomen ireju barasua۔
The movement for the Emancipation of the Niger delta (MEND) Said it deployed 50 fighters to free one of its leaders Sobomabo George, who had been arrested by police earlier in the day for a minor traffic office.
The police estimated about 300 militants were involved in the attacks and said a man and a 10-year-old girl were killed by stry bullets.
The armed forces are unable to control the delta's maze of mangrove-lined creeks and Major cities such as port Harcourt and warri have also descended into anarchy.
Poverty fuels crime and militancy in the delta's neglected towns and villages'where people living without electricity or clean water feel cheated out of the oil wealth being pumbed from their lands.shshar.blogspot.com
Militants freed 125 suspected Criminal When the Stormed A police complex in the oil capital port Harcourt Nigerian police said.
2 bystanders were killed between miltants And Security Force in the dencely populated old part of the city during which the militants torched a police building and obout 10 vehicle.
"They freed 105 inmates from the criminal investigation deportment and 20 from the central police station," said police spokeswomen ireju barasua۔
The movement for the Emancipation of the Niger delta (MEND) Said it deployed 50 fighters to free one of its leaders Sobomabo George, who had been arrested by police earlier in the day for a minor traffic office.
The police estimated about 300 militants were involved in the attacks and said a man and a 10-year-old girl were killed by stry bullets.
The armed forces are unable to control the delta's maze of mangrove-lined creeks and Major cities such as port Harcourt and warri have also descended into anarchy.
Poverty fuels crime and militancy in the delta's neglected towns and villages'where people living without electricity or clean water feel cheated out of the oil wealth being pumbed from their lands.shshar.blogspot.com