Niger Delta crisis escalates
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Nigerianparrot at Monday, May 18, 2009
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The face-off between the Joint Task Face in the Niger Delta and militants entered its fifth day on sunday with an unspecified number of persons including a pregnant woman killed.
Also killed in the fighting in which about 20,000 people are said to be trapped was another Filipina hostage and a nine year old child.
Three more filipino were however freed from the militants and one helicopter recovered by the JTF operatives during the attacks in kurutie,kokodiagbene,kunulunuma,oporoza and okerenkoko in Gbaramatu clan,all in Warri South-West local government area of Delta state.
It was learn't that the JTF had mobilised two Nigerian Air Force bombers and 15 gunboats in continuation of the onslaught against suspected militants operating in these areas.
The presidency had ordered that Ekpomukpolo and his lieutenants be apprehended dead or alive.