Air Force Bombs Oil Bunkerers

The patience of the Federal Government with communities suspected to be harbouring militant Niger Delta youths waned yesterday as its Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Restore Hope, bombarded Okorenkoko, an Ijaw community in Warri.

Although the military said its action was targeted at illegal oil bunkerers at the community believed to be the stronghold of Ijaw militant youths, the community leaders claimed that about 20 persons died while several others sustained serious injuries.

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