HOURS after some groups of militant threatened to resume hostilities in the Niger Delta region, some suspected militants on Monday attacked an army formation at Opuama community of Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State leaving one of the soldiers critically injured. "Though they earlier zoomed off, they (militants) later returned and engaged the soldiers in a fierce gun battle with one soldiers sustaining gunshot wounds." Meanwhile, the leadership of Opuama community has condemned the attack adding that the people of the community were shocked as a result of the attack. Shedding light on the incident, he said: "Following the attack, locals in the community, fled into the bush and are yet to return over fears of a reprisal attack. "As a people, we are meeting and would soon come out with a surveillance team to work in conjunction with security operatives in the area in manning the waterways."

Source: The North Africa Journal April 26, 2017 13:52 UTC