At least 12 people were killed over New Year in Nigeria’s oil capital, Port Harcourt, when gunmen attacked two police stations and a hotel, a military officer in the city said on Wednesday.
”For now what we are looking at is between 12 and 16 dead in total,” the officer, who asked not to be named, told Agence France-Presse, adding that the total included both civilians and police.
”As for the militants, we know we killed some, but we don’t know how many exactly,” he said.
Local media said Ateke Tom, the head of a local armed group, had claimed responsibility for the attack.
The latest violence followed the lifting on Sunday of a curfew on the city that had been in place since the last fighting there four months ago. — AFP
