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BREAKING: Many feared dead as Communal Clash rocks Adamawa

By Musa Isa Ahmed
Many people are feared to death on a violent clash, between two tribes of lunguda and waja in Adamawa state.
It was gathered that indigenous ‘Lunguda’ tribe and their ‘Waja’ settlers in Lafiya town under Lamurde local government area of the state, engaged each other in overnight violent confrontation.
It was further learnt that over five villages of Momsurmi, Boshikiri, Zakawon and Burti villages have been burnt to ashes.
Domestic animals and foodstuffs were also destroyed in the mayhem, which lasted several hours, before the military brought the situation under control.
The conflict, was said to have been sparked by dispute over farmland ownership, causing the distraction of lives and property worth millions of naira.
Adamawa state Deputy Governor, Crowther Seth, in company of the Brigade Commander of the 23 brigade Yola, Brigadier General Sani Gambo Mohammed, visited the scene, in the early hours of Wednesday.
The deputy governor, who assured that government will investigate and bring perpetrators to book, warned against further escalation of the violence.
Just last month, over 48 lives were lost in a similar communal clash in Tingno, under the same Lamurde local government area.
However lamurde local government remain under fear no movement also be comes a danger zones as part of the linking roads from Gombe to the state capital Yola.

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