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Lagos - Soldiers and police in speedboats with mounted machine guns raided a village in Nigeria's oil delta, killing at least five men who resisted the operation to seize illegal weapons, officers said on Saturday.

Local gunmen shot and killed one soldier during Friday's raid in Ogodobiri village, said Brigadier GeneralElias Zamani, commander of a joint army-police task force in the troubled southern Niger Delta.

Zamani visited the village - near Shell's Forcados export terminal -hours after the raid, when he saw the bodies of five suspected "river pirates" killed by security force troops.

"Many others" were likely killed and whisked away by villagers, he added.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,6119,2-11-1447_1541841,00.html

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