JUST IN: Two killed in Bayelsa suspected cult clash

Following a clash involving suspected rival cults in popular Swali Market in Bayelsa State on Monday, two persons have been reportedly killed.

Moreso, it was gathered that the two other victims, who sustained gunshot wounds, were said to be receiving treatment in a nearby hospital.

The deceased and the two surviving victims were traders in the market and they were hit by stray bullets fired by the cultists, it was learnt.

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The clash, however, threw the market into pandemonium as traders, customers and passers-by stampede for their dear lives while some shops were looted and goods carted away.

While speaking with newsmen, the Bayelsa State Police Command, Asinim Butswat, confirmed the incident.

Butswat, who said the command had yet to ascertain the names of the two cults, said, “It was a rival cult clash. Two persons died (names withheld), while one Emmanuel Akpaye and Chinedu Offor are responding to treatment at the Federal Medical Centre.”