The security forces rescued 19 hostages - two Americans, two Frenchmen, two Indonesians, one Canadian, and 12 Nigerians - from a camp in the mangrove creeks late on Wednesday, in what the government heralded as a major victory.
The joint military taskforce responsible for policing the region said it had taken over several militant camps and that an operation to secure others was "ongoing."
"This operation will continue as long as it will take to uproot the militants from the Niger Delta," Major General Charles Omoregie, the commander of the taskforce, said.
But the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) militant group said on Friday it would carry out more kidnappings from oil facilities, and said they had killed several soldiers in an ambush of military gunboats.
"Our fighters have been instructed to carry out more raids on oil installations from where fresh hostages will be taken," the group said in a statement emailed to the media.
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