JTF arrest 6 suspects, recover arms, ammunition

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(Nigeria) The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta code named Operation Pulo Shield, has arrested six suspected sea pirates and recovered cache of arms in the creek of Bayelsa State.
The arrest was sequel to two separate attacks on JTF personnel and other commuters along Sangana and Santa-Barbara waterways off the Atlantic coast of the state in which some soldiers and a boat driver lost their lives.
Items recovered by the JTF operatives include three Browning Machine Gun (BMGs) with registration Nos 1981 with stand, B572 Banel No Z90323 with stand, HMG – 50MG ST Kinetics Serial No 2405PM with sitting and its links ammunition buried under ground.
Others were one AK 47 rifle without registration No, one G3 rifle with No G310D792 and She rifle with Reg No T67439 and Wooden Dummy rifle, three  gunboat batteries,  one Hp laptop computer, one Police fragmental jacket, 1 x 200 horse power engine, empty cases of 12.7mm ammunition of HMG gun, one search light with batteries, one bag containing boat tools, one Nokia G6 mobile phone, two rifle butts and one plastic toy pistol.

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