Another 2 killed in Ilorin cult clashes
Suspected members of two secret cults clashed again in Okelele area of Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, killing two persons in the process.
Members of one of the cult groups had last Sunday killed a middle-aged man belonging to another group within the premises of Okelele Junior Secondary School, Ilorin.
The Tuesday incidents which residents claimed were reprisals killing happened simultaneously at Kankatu and Isale- Odo areas of Okelele community.
It was gathered that members of the group that struck last Sunday broke an earlier agreement between the two sides that they should ceased hostilities during the holy months of Ramadan.
A resident disclosed that it was the breaking of the agreement by a group that resorted in the dastard operations carried out by the second group on Tuesday.
He further revealed that members of the two waring cult groups are tricycle operators.
Residents of Okelele and the adjoining communities now leave in fear as the reprisals attacks may continue.
The spokesman of the state police command, Ajayi Okasanmi, had confirmed the incident of last Sunday, saying that the police had commenced investigation into it.
