Channels TV reported last night that 14 bodies of the victims had been recovered by a joint task force led by the General Officer Commanding 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Jamal Abdussalam.

The corpses were recovered from the rivers of Okuoma where they floated.

According to Channels Television, some of the recovered corpses were said to have been beheaded, while the stomachs and hearts of others were ripped off.

The news platform added that at the NDDC jetty in the coastal Delta community, the bodies of the commanding officer and the two killed majors were seen floating by the riverbank as others were separated on land.