Suspected Cultists Bomb Radio House
The cults
mayhem that rocked the Niger-delta in the middle of the year reached the
corridors of the media on August 11, 2007 when suspected cult members in
Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital in the Niger Delta region,
bombed a portion of the building housing the State-owned radio station,
Radio Rivers FM.
Gun-wielding youths were reported to have detonated dynamites at the
station on Degema Street at about 3.30am, destroying a section of the
administrative block. No staff of the radio station was hurt in the
attack, although a security guard and other persons were said to have
been killed near the station. Some facilities belonging to the station
were damaged.
The cult
members belonging to rival gangs have been engaged in bloody
confrontation resulting in the deaths of scores of innocent persons in
the city. Following attempts by security and law enforcement agents to
restore law and order in the city, the cult members have also directed
their attacks at government facilities and personnel.
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