The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, on Wednesday, regretted that 21 children had been orphaned and 10 women widowed by the recent killing of 17 military personnel in Delta State.

He said out of the 10 widows, three of them are four, five, and eight months pregnant.

He noted that it was sad that those responsible for their deaths were those they swore to protect.

Lagbaja spoke at the burial ceremony for the slain personnel at the National Military Cemetery in Abuja.

He noted that the Army will not be deterred by the incident, vowing that the culprits would be brought to book.