Nigerian Army Raids Militant Camps in Southern Oil Region
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Nigerian troops launched attacks on suspected militant camps in the country’s southern oil-producing Niger River delta after a military patrol was fired upon in the area, an army spokesman said.
Soldiers were attacked on May 11 by fighters of the John Togo-led Niger Delta Liberation Force, Colonel Timothy Antigha, spokesman for the joint military task force in the region, said by phone today from the oil hub of Port Harcourt.