No fewer than six individuals have been feared killed when armed males suspected to be members of rival cult teams allegedly attacked some areas in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on Sunday.
It was gathered that the assaults came about in Okpuno space, round Eke Awka and Obinagu. The same incident was additionally stated to have occurred at Reverse Dike Park, round Eke Awka Market, all in Awka, the state capital.
Though the precise casualty determine couldn’t be instantly obtained, sources within the areas stated the victims have been on their method for a picnic and different social features when the rampaging armed males stormed the realm of their numbers and began taking pictures.
The explanation for the taking pictures has but to be formally ascertained, however sources within the space stated the rampaging armed males may need engaged each other in a supremacy battle.
One of many sources, a resident in one of many areas stated, “The victims have been on their approach to totally different features once they have been killed by the bullets from the armed males who stormed the realm at about midday on Sunday.
“The incident additionally escalated to different areas, the place some extra individuals have been additionally gunned down by the armed males suspected to be cultists.”
It was gathered that one of many individuals hit by bullets was a workers of the Anambra State Judiciary merely recognized as Nwofor, who was stated to be on his approach to a operate earlier than the armed males struck.
This was corroborated by a video at the moment trending on social media, exhibiting our bodies of individuals gunned down within the Eke Awka environs.
Whereas one of many victims was seen nonetheless struggling in ache within the pool of his blood beside his bike the place he fell, passersby have been seen scampering to security.
The police had lately arrested some cult members within the wake of cult-related killings in Awka, however the actions persist.
Nevertheless, the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ikenga Tochukwu, when contacted, couldn’t verify the incident as he stated there was no such report earlier than him.
