Thousands of people have fled an oil town in the Niger Delta, Nigeria  after an unknown militant group said that all people not originally from the area who did not leave the town would be beheaded. The militants first visited Bonny Island, the town involved, two weeks ago, killing nine people. According to newspaper reports, they said that they would return yesterday to carry out the beheading. Wikinews does not know if they followed through with this . Kingsley Adonis Pepple, a local resident  , described the panic on Bonny Island. "They were handing out copies of this article to people in the street. There was panic. People packed up their entire family into a boat and fled," he said. 
Thousands of people have fled an oil town in the Niger Delta, Nigeria yesterday after an unknown militant group said that all people not originally from the area who did not leave the town would be beheaded. The militants first visited Bonny Island, the town involved, two weeks ago, killing nine people. According to newspaper reports, they said that they would return yesterday to carry out the beheading. They did not return as promised, but many in the city of 100,000 took the threat seriously and left . Kingsley Adonis Pepple, a local resident and youth leader , described the panic on Bonny Island. "They were handing out copies of this article to people in the street. There was panic. People packed up their entire family into a boat and fled," he said. Pepple also said that all known militant groups in the area had denied issuing any threats
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Wikinews does not know if they followed through with this
They did not return as promised, but many in the city of 100,000 took the threat seriously and left
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Pepple also said that all known militant groups in the area had denied issuing any threats