Villagers Report Deadly Clashes in Delta Region
From Times Wire Reports
Exhausted, hungry villagers fleeing days of fighting in the oil-rich Niger Delta said Nigerian soldiers and ethnic militants were firing indiscriminately, leaving scores dead. The battle between Ijaw and Itsekiri tribal fighters began March 12 and has since drawn in Nigerian troops who, witnesses say, have launched retaliatory attacks against Ijaw villages.
The fighting is taking place in a remote warren of creeks and swamps where roads and telephones are practically nonexistent despite the area’s oil wealth.
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