Following the actions of unknown gunmen who opened fire on a boy and his girlfriend on Sunday, palpable anxiety has once more seeped into Eku community, Ethiope East local government area, Delta state.
Locals informed the Vanguard that once the shooters vanished into thin air, sympathizers immediately brought the wounded to the Eku hospital.
Additionally, Vanguard learned that a second young man from the neighborhood was followed to the nearby Okpara community, where he was allegedly shot dead the following Sunday.
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At press time , residents said the ugly incidents had triggered tension in the community.
It would be recalled that curfew was imposed in the community last month after a young man who got wedded few months earlier was shot dead around the Hospital quarter area of the town, a development that fueled speculation that it was a reprisal attack from a rival cult group.
When contacted for comment via his WhatsApp the state Police Public relations officer, PPRO, DSP Bright Edafe sad he had not been briefed on the developments. ” Not aware yet sir “, he said.
A video of the boy and his girl friend receiving treatment at the Eku hospital was on the community’s Facebook group called Eku Progress Union with a background voice decrying insecurity in the town. A man identified as father of the boy in the video was sitting while his son was being attended to by medics
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