Gun Men Kill Three in Nigeria oil barge attack

Two soldiers and one crew member were shot dead by gunmen who ambushed an Indian-owned oil barge on Tuesday as it was being escorted by the military through Nigeria's Niger Delta region, security forces spokesman was reported as saying. 

The vessel belonging to Sterling Global Oil Resources, part of the Sandesara Group conglomerate, was fired on in the Angiama area of the delta, according to Onyema Nwachukwu, spokesman for mixed military and police brigades in the Niger Delta region.

The spokesman added "Our troops were escorting the Sterling Global Oil barge... when they ran into an ambush. Two soldiers and one civilian were killed," he said, and three civilians on the boat were wounded. "Troops have been deployed to the area because some of the gunmen fled wounded."

There was no immediate comment from Sterling as at the time of this report.

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