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Tension As Gunmen Raid Community In Rivers

By Jennifer Y Omiloli

No less than three individuals were accounted for killed on Friday in Eneka people group in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State when a gathering of shooters began shooting sporadically almost a football seeing focus.

A few people, for the most part youth, continued different degrees of discharge wounds as the shooters opened flame on inhabitants of the region.

It was found out that the episode happened when the prevalence coordinate among Liverpool and Huddersfield was continuous, and the inhabitants ran helter-cover searching for spread to abstain from being hit by shots.

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A source said the occurrence was one of the clique related assaults that had influenced a few pieces of the state.

“The gunmen came at the end of the first half of the Liverpool versus Huddersfield match,” he said.

“Some persons were seriously injured because they were shot by the gunmen. Though we learnt that three persons had died, we have not been able to verify that yet. But it was terrifying. By the time some policemen arrived, the gunmen had left, leaving the community in agony. Many with gunshot injuries were rushed to hospital after the gunmen left.”

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