{"id":11165,"date":"2016-08-27T18:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11165"},"modified":"2016-08-27T18:05:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T18:05:43","slug":"niger-delta-troops-kill-five-alleged-militants-recover-arms-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11165","title":{"rendered":"Niger Delta: Troops kill five alleged militants, recover arms in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=10096&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Troops of the Special Forces Battalion have killed five alleged militants and recovered some arms and ammunition from their camp in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said in a statement on Saturday that the militants were killed in an operation which was a prelude to \u2018Exercise Crocodile Smile\u2019 in the Niger Delta.<\/p>\n<p>Usman said that 23 suspects were arrested and several others were injured during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>He said that \u2018Operation Crocodile Smile\u2019 is designed to flush out criminal elements in the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n<p>Usman said that the troops recovered \u2018two AK-47 rifles, 11 Pump Action guns, a locally made revolver pistol, 292 cartridges of live Ammunition, 199 rounds of AK-47 rifle ammunition, four electricity generating sets and a camp gas cooker\u2019 from the militants.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the troops also recovered an engine boat which was abandoned by the militants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nigeria-army-riverine.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10474\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nigeria-army-riverine-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"nigeria army riverine\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nigeria-army-riverine-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nigeria-army-riverine-768x445.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nigeria-army-riverine.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe 133 Special Forces Battalion of the Nigerian Army have carried out a precursor operation to Exercise CROCODILE SMILE aimed at getting rid of all forms of criminal activities in the Niger Delta geo-political region of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the course of the operation, five militants that attacked the troops were killed in action, while numerous others were injured and 23 suspects were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operations which was conducted yesterday 26th August 2016, was carried out by the Special Forces at the militants camps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cItems recovered from the camps include two AK-47 rifles, 11 Pump Action guns, a locally made revolver pistol, 292 cartridges of live Ammunition, 199 rounds of AK-47 rifle Ammunition, four electricity generating sets and a camp gas cooker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe troops also recovered an abandoned engine boat left by the fleeing criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=10096&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troops of the Special Forces Battalion have killed five alleged militants and recovered some arms and ammunition from their camp in Rivers State. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said in a statement on Saturday that the militants were killed in an operation which was a prelude to \u2018Exercise Crocodile Smile\u2019 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[2845,2536,201],"class_list":["post-11165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-col-sani-usman","tag-exercise-crocodile-smile","tag-niger-delta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nigeria-army-riverine.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2U5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11166,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions\/11166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}