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Unidentified armed men in military uniform have killed a Government House Photographer, Mr. Reginald Dei, and one other person at Oweikorogha, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
Dei was killed alongside the ward chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the area, Mr. Seidougha Taribi.
According to an eye witness account, the two victims were killed while in their houses waiting for the votes, which had been concluded in their ward, to be counted.
The State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Moses Cleopas, said in a statement on Saturday that the death of Dei and Seidougha brings the number of those killed by alleged APC thugs in the state to three.
He also said that thugs allegedly working for the APC besieged Bassambiri and Oluasiri axis of Nembe Local Government Area, where they engaged operatives in a gun duel all night on Friday.
According to him, the attackers lost a member in the attack while several others were injured and taken to the Hospital in Ogbolomabiri and Yenagoa.
He accused former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, and Surveillance Contractors in Nembe, Kodjo, of being behind the violence.
