No fewer than eleven persons were feared dead in Omoku, headquarters of Ogba Egbema Ndoni local government area of Rivers State, after some gunmen stormed the area on Friday night. It was gathered that the gunmen, who were masked, shot erratically for several hours.
Eyewitness said the gunmen later fled
when men of the Joint Task Force, JTF, engaged them in a gun duel.The
gunmen were said to have regrouped, yesterday afternoon, to continue the
shooting at the market.
Among those killed, sources said, was a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), simply identified as Godspower.
The Chairman of the local government
area, Mr Austin Ayamadu, who condemned the incident, appealed to
residents to remain calm, assuring that security men had taken charge of
the area. Ayamadu said the gunmen went from one street to the other
shooting before security men swung into action.
“Unknown gunmen invaded Omoku and
started by killing an elder of the APC and some other people were also
killed. The figure I cannot immediately say because of the security
situation, but it is more than five”, he said.Rivers State Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Ahmad Muhammad, who confirmed the development,
said it was a clash between rival cult groups, stressing that security
men were on top of the situation.
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