Sea Pirates Kill Three Agip Workers in Bayelsa Nigeria.
An armed gang suspected to be
sea pirates have killed three workers of an international oil company,
Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, in Bayelsa State.
It wasn’t clear if members of
the deadly Niger Delta Avengers were responsible for the attack, but the
militants had warned that any attempt to repair bombed oil and gas
facilities would be bloody.
It was learnt that the victims
were carrying out repairs at a work station in the creeks of Nembe
around Obama flowstation operated by Eni Oil, a parent company of Agip,
when the incident occurred.
A security source who craved anonymity, said the victims were two engineers and a driver.
He added that the three
workers were ambushed and killed along the creeks while carrying out
repair work on Agip pipelines that were destroyed some weeks ago by
militants in the Niger Delta.
He said, “The sea pirates, who
operate in the area, carried out an ambush on the oil workers. The
area is a notorious place where gunmen operate freely.”
The Commandant, Nigeria
Security and Civil Defence Corps, Bayelsa State Command, Mr. Desmond
Agu, confirmed the attack, saying it took place on Friday.
He said already, the search
team of security operatives had recovered two dead bodies and their
corpses had been taken to Port Harcourt, Rivers State, by an ambulance.
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