Nigerian soldier killed in ambush in oil city of Port Harcourt


  • World
  • Sunday, 29 Mar 2015

PORT HARCOURT (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Nigerian soldier in an ambush in the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt on Saturday, the military said, as voters were casting their ballots across the country in a presidential election.

Brigadier-General K.A. Essien told reporters in Port Harcourt, the centre of Africa's biggest oil and gas industry, of the attack but gave no further details.

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