Gruesome: 4 killed as rival youth clash over control of motor park in Anambra

by Rachel Ogbu

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A youth conflict in Anambra state is said to have left about four people dead and 10 others injured.

On Monday, two rival youth groups suspected to have come from Ogbaru Area Council of Anambra State engaged in a bloody clash reportedly over the control and ownership of a motor park known as Aba Park located in the heart of Upper Iweka in the commercial city of Onitsha, along the ever-busy Onitsha-Owerri Road.

People who were killed reportedly had their skulls ripped opened.

According to reports, property worth millions of naira, including vehicles and shops, were damaged and traders at the Ogbaru Relief Market were forced to shut their shops to protect their lives and wares.

Police Area Commander for Onitsha, Benjamin Wordu, an Assistant Commissioner of Police confirmed the crisis but said the casualty was only two while the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) said he was aware of only one casualty, saying that the police had started investigation.

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Vanguard reports:

Trouble was said to have started when one of the warring factions allegedly stormed the park early in the morning to forcefully take over its control.

On arrival, the source stated, the other faction attempted to bar their rival from entering the park but in an apparent move to force themselves in, both factions clashed.

Reacting to the bloody clash, the Association of Igbo Youths Organisation, AIYO, warned that it would no longer tolerate incessant clandestine activities of militant youths from Onitsha and its environs.

Sounding the note of warning, the AIYO State Coordinator, Mr. Chukwuemeka Omeinyi Oga, added that the Igbo race would not continue to engage in wanton destruction when other tribes are developing their areas.

On the alleged discovery of flags with insignia of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) littered the scene of the clash, MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Comrade Uchenna Madu, dissociated MASSOB from the incident.

 

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  1. those bhand such act shd b arrested

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