The Lagos Police Command has confirmed two persons dead in the Ojota area of the state on Tuesday, as two cult groups engaged themselves in a supremacy battle.

Unconfirmed sources, however, told journalists that three suspected cultists were killed in the clash.

The police spokesman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the death toll of two, said six persons had been arrested over the incident.

However, he said peace had been restored as police deployed more operatives.

A witness said that one person was killed at each of two road intersections in the area, while a third was killed in a foodstuffs shop.

It was gathered that the clashes began on Sunday and went on through Monday and Tuesday, resulting in the shooting and death of the victims.

Most shop owners in the area, particularly those selling industrial chemicals, have not opened their shops since Monday over fear of escalation of the clashes.

Other traders in the area were seen discussing the clashes in groups, just as parents scuttled there to take their schoolchildren home. 

Police patrol vans were seen combing the area on Tuesday. 

A trader, Chinedu Agwu, lamented that cult crises were returning to Ojota and called on the police to raid cultist enclaves located on different streets in the area.

A food seller, Aminat Adewale, complained that Tuesday’s clash, in particular, prevented patrons from buying her prepared food.

(NAN)