A couple of Nigerian soldiers operating in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria have been gruesomely murdered in an ambush by suspected militants.
Unknown gunmen, suspected to be militants, have reportedly killed four soldiers and a civilian in Bayelsa State.
The suspects were said to have laid an ambush for the soldiers along the waterways of Letugbene, Ekeremor Local Government Area of the state.
Some security sources confirmed that a team of soldiers returning from Letugbene community on Monday became victims of an ambush laid by armed youths believed to be militants.