Gunmen suspected to be sea pirates, in the early hours of Sunday attacked two oil installations, killing three and abducting seven oil workers in Bayelsa.

The News Agency of Nigeria (ANAN)learned that the pirates ambushed their unsuspecting victims in Okoroma and Ogbokiri-Akassa communities of Nembe and Brass Local Government areas of Bayelsa.

Sources close to the affected oilfields said the gunmen reportedly shot dead two staff of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

The driver of their boat, an indigene of the Okoroma community, is still missing, according to the local sources who witnessed the incident and narrated the same to a NAN Correspondent.