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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Dozens of militants sank two military patrol boats in Nigeria's oil-rich, southern delta Monday in an attack that killed five soldiers and left nine others missing, an army spokesman said.
Maj. Sagir Musa said 15 soldiers were on a routine boat patrol in a delta outlet when 70 militants attacked, sinking two military boats. One of the soldiers managed to escape and raise the alarm, he said, giving the casualty toll.
Bisi Ojediran, a spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell PLC in Lagos, said a convoy belonging to the company was attacked Monday while accompanied by a military escort in the area Musa described.
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