A palpable fear has gripped residents of Ibafo Market, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State where suspected cult members have reportedly killed an unidentified soldier.
TheNewsGuru.com gathered that the incident happened around late evening on Tuesday.
An anonymous source confirmed that there was a clash between cultists and soldiers in the community which led to the death of one of the soldiers.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident.
ALSO READ: Mortuary staff arrested with fresh human head in Ogun state
He said the clash was caused by a crisis between Yahoo boys (Internet fraudsters) who went to bring cultists and the other was said to have invited soldiers to defend him.
“A soldier was shot and rushed to a hospital. No one reported the case to the police. The soldiers were said to have initially come in their private car before a patrol team came and left afterwards. The police visited the area and everywhere is calm now,” the spokesman of the state police command said.
Deadly clashes among dangerous groups are taking turns for the worse with the use of dangerous weapons involved, TheNewsGuru.com reports.