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Article: Nigerian militants say 3 soldiers killed in oil-rich Niger delta
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 25, 2006
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Nigerian militants say 3 soldiers killed in oil-rich Niger delta
LAGOS, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian militants holding three
foreign oil workers said on Saturday they killed three soldiers in an
encounter with government troops in the southern oil-rich Niger
Delta.
"We wish to confirm an incident involving a patrol boat of the
Nigerian army and one of our patrols in Soku area on Thursday, March
23, 2006. We confirm that three soldiers were killed in this
encounter," the ethnic Ijaw militants said in an email statement.
The militants belonging to the Movement for the Emancipation of
the Niger Delta (MEND) said they captured "the military patrol boat
and a sizeable quantity of weapons and ...