BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The headquarters of Operation Delta Safe of the Nigerian military on Thursday said that following a report of the kidnap of two soldiers that were on banking services in Onelga, Rivers State, its troops immediately mobilized, swung into action and discovered a militant camp with several shrines in a forest at Obiozimini Community in Rivers State.
It said that on approach, the suspected militants/cultists opened fire on the troops who subsequently engaged them with superior fire power leading to casualties on the side of suspected kidnappers, while others escaped with various degrees of gunshot wounds into an adjoining forest.
A statement by the Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre, Major Ibrahim Abdullahi, said the operation successfully rescued the two abducted personnel.
Abdullahi said further search of the campsite led to the rescue of four other civilians that were earlier kidnapped including a lady.
He said that items discovered in the camp and shrines include three pump action guns, eight empty cartridges and a human skull and some bones
Abdullahi said the camp and shrines were subsequently destroyed while the rescued victims were evacuated to one of the military medical facilities in the area.
“In order to arrest the perpetrators of this heinous crime, troops are trailing the criminals, who fled into the forest. Members of the public are kindly requested to provide any useful information to identify these criminals and their whereabouts in order to face justice,” Abdullahi pleaded.
