Niger Delta militants attacked and killed two police escorts on a Nigerian LNG ferry Monday afternoon in Bonny.
The militants were looking for foreign oil workers to kidnap, but when they found none, they left and disappeared in the creeks leaving the passengers on the Nigeria LNG ferry in fear and trembling. The ferry was heading to the Nigeria LNG Bonny Plant Complex from the Nigeria LNG jetty in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The Monday attack marks the first time that a Nigeria LNG ferry would be the target of the militants terrorizing the Niger Delta region.
Armed gunmen regularly attack foreign oil installations and take hostages that are later released in exchange for ransom.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigeria Delta (MEND) threatened to launch attacks on the Nigeria LNG Plant on Bonny Island. Militants and other gunmen target foreign workers in the Niger Delta region, which has seen thousands of foreign oil workers fleeing the region, because of the violence and drastic reductions in oil exports by 20 percent.
MEND has been fighting for regional resource control and compensation from Shell and other multinational oil companies operating in the region.

The Niger Delta produces most of the estimated 2.1 million barrels of crude oil per day, but the region has suffered from decades of neglect and environmental pollution leaving the majority of the people in abject poverty