The Joint Military Task Foce deployed to the Niger Delta on Monday said its troops lost a solder and killed a suspected militant leader when the bandits launched an attack on troops in Ondo state.
The Joint Military Force involved in the operation to clear the Niger Delta of militants, kidnappers and sea pirates, says it has killed five suspected militants and two pirates in different operations within the last three days, while three other suspects were arrested.
An attempt by Niger Delta militants to attack Nigerian Troops on Friday at Efut Esighi, in Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State, turned bloody when seven of the attackers were killed.
An official of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has been killed by suspected pirates in the creeks of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State.
Three oil workers have been killed by suspected members of the Niger Delta Avengers militant group at an oil field operated by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company in Bayelsa State.
