Edo: Eight feared killed in renewed cult clashes
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A renewed cult war in some parts of Benin City, particularly, Upper Sokponba Road and its environs have reportedly claimed not less than eight lives in the state capital.
Some sources claim that the death toll is not less than twenty in the last three days when the crisis erupted.
The latest clash is said to be between the Supreme Eiye Confraternity (SEC) and Supreme Vikings Confraternity.
Though the cause of the clash is yet unknown, it was gathered that the issues escalated when some of the people believed to be leaders of the groups tried to resolve the crisis in a meeting called at Tipper garage in Idogbo area of Upper Sokponba Road and that “the attempt to settle matter did not work.
It was further scooped that some alleged Eiye members attacked the Vikings members and inflicted injuries’ on them with knives but no life was lost.
The Vikings went back in their numbers and killed one of the top hierarchy member of eiye that was how the thing escalated and after that they killed another person called oil man also an eiye member and from there they went two houses away and killed another person so that is what led to eiye decided to start their retaliation.
There was a Vikings member that was was stabbed mercilessly and they thought he was dead but he is the hospital. The challenge in this s that one of the groups does not accept apology and the other does not apologise” the source told Vanguard.
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