In the course of carrying out due diligence on the incident involving a yet-to-identified military chopper that fired on unarmed civilians in a local cargo boat along the Bonny River at Dutch Island area in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, Kristina Reports spoke with a medical practitioner who attended to the victims of the unfortunate attack.

In this brief interview with Kristina Reports Correspondent, Chamberlain Noble, Dr. Collins Yakubu of the Collins Medical Center, Okrika, gave some insights into the nature of injuries sustained by the victims and what treatments were given to assuage their plight. Please read….

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Please, Sir, what’s your name?

I am Dr Collins Yakubu, and I work here at Collin’s Medical Center, Okrika.

Sir, we heard that some victims are in your hospital receiving medical attention from an incident that happened on the Port Harcourt sea route to Bonny. We hear they were shot from an helicopter. Please, Sir, what’s your finding from the victims taking treatment and the damage made so far on them?

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Two of them were rushed in this evening with a police extract from the Okrika Police Division. One sustained a deep laceration – that is a very deep cut with a bullet inside – around the posterior part of the leg which we tried to extract the bullet and stitch off the place to control the bleeding. Currently, he is taking treatment and there is an improvement in his clinical state. The second one sustained some injury on his hand and a bleeding but it is ok now, the both of them are better now.

The both victims are in this hospital?

Yes.

So far, after medical attention, is there likely to be any internal issues again? No, but by tomorrow we are sending the one with the major wound on the leg for x-ray to see if there is any damage to the bone. But I doubt.