BREAKING: Unknown Helicopter Shoots Passengers’ Boat In Rivers, Many Feared Dead
A local passenger boat traveling from Port Harcourt to Bonny in Rivers State was purportedly shot at by an unidentified chopper.
There are concerns that there will be casualties, as some of the passengers have been critically injured and transported to the hospital.
According to Punch, newsmen were told that there were casualties at the Bonny-Nembe waterside in Port Harcourt, where the boat took off from.
While expressing his disbelief at the incident, he explained that the boat was transporting passengers and food.
“The local boat that just left here to Bonny, within the Treasure Island area, a chopper or I will call it a flight helicopter, just came behind, went very low and started shooting at the wooden boat.
“From the information we got from a boat driver, there were passengers in the boat. The boat also contained foodstuff such as garri, rice and other items.
“Everyone knows that is the route transporting foodstuff to Bonny. Some people died in the boat,” he claimed
When contacted, a spokesman of the state Police Command, Nnamdi Omoni, said that he had yet to get the report and asked our correspondent to call back later.
Spokesman of the 6 Division, Nigeria Army, Charles Ekeocha, did not pick calls put across to him by our correspondent; just like his counterpart in the Nigerian Air Force, Port Harcourt, as of the time of filing this report.
