DELTA: Suspected pirates kill mother, son

Tragedy struck at a fishing camp along Ekologbene creek of Ayakoromo community, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, when a woman and her son were shot dead by men suspected to be pirates.

According to reports, the bandits, who came in a 200-horsepower speedboat attacked the pair who were preparing to embark on an evening fishing expedition, pointing a gun to the head of the woman, barking at her to hand over money she had on her.

However, her son didn’t like the way she was being handled by the hoodlums and decided to engage them in a brawl but that only angered the bandits who reportedly shot the woman identified as Mrs. Anetorofa Morkor and her son, Doutimi Asaba to death and threw their bodies in the river.

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Giving details of the incident, a witness said; “While I was being frisked, others went to an adjourning camp where the victims were. Angered by the way his mother was being manhandled, the son engaged the hoodlums in a brawl, which resulted to both of them being shot.”

Reacting to the incident, the National President of Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, Mr. Austin Ozobo, who hails from the area said; “The corpses have been recovered from the river. There was no crisis in the community before the killings. We are shocked by this senseless killings and the community has been thrown into tension.”

However, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Andrew Aniamaka, said he had no knowledge about the incident as he had not been briefed as at the time of this report.

 

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