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No fewer than seven persons have been killed in a supremacy battle of rival cults believed to be members of the Aye and Bangas confraternities in Ughelli, Delta State.

 

Many people reportedly sustained varying degrees of injury in the attack, according to a report by Punch Metro.

It was gathered that trouble started last Friday after a clash between the two cults led to the death of an Aye member.

 

Sources said the killing was greeted with reprisals, during which casualties were recorded on both sides in various locations of the metropolis.

 

According to sources, one of the strongmen of Bangas was murdered on Akpodiete Street, Ughelli, while two of his opponents were similarly killed in Ekiugbo.

 

Another cult member was shot dead on Oghenevwetata Street in Ughelli on Saturday night.

Our correspondent gathered that two of the victims, identified as Frank and Oghenero, were brothers.

They were reportedly trailed to their house at Poyo compound, close to Ataverhe Junction in Ekiugbo-Ughelli, where they were attacked.

 

Frank and Oghenero, according to sources, were dragged from their room to an uncompleted building in the compound, where they were shot dead.

 

The gory remains of most of the suspected cultists revealed that some of the men were hacked with machete in the head and neck.

 


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