Cult clash leaves two dead in Enugu
Two yet-to-be-identified men have been murdered in an alleged cult clash between rivals on Ogui Road of Enugu metropolis, the state’s police spokesman Daniel Ndukwe confirmed on Tuesday.
Mr Ndukwe said that the incident happened at about 12:00 midnight on April 26.
The police spokesman said the feuding rival cultists shot sporadically along the stretch of the ever-busy Ogui Road.
He said that police operatives had evacuated the corpses of the two suspected cultists and deposited them at a morgue for autopsy.
He, however, said that normalcy had returned to the Ogui axis of the metropolis.
The police spokesman said that the Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Aliyu, has ordered a full investigation into the incident.
“The commissioner appeals to residents of Ogui axis of Enugu to go about their legitimate business as police operatives are on top of the situation and have returned normalcy to the area,” he said.
A resident of the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the shooting lasted for about 20 minutes, creating panic among residents in the night.
The witness noted, “we were highly apprehensive since we could not understand what was going on and why the shooting should last for such a stretch of time.
“This is coupled with the already heightened insecurity most of us are aware of in the country,” he added.
(NAN)
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