Four persons have been beheaded in Oso Edda, Edda Local Government Area of Ebonyi State in the renewed crisis between the people of the community and their Amasiri neighbours in Afikpo Local Government Area of the state. The two communities have been at war for decades over land with many lives lost and property worth billions of naira destroyed.
Efforts have been made by the present government to end the war to no avail.
Reports by residents indicates by midnight on Thursday, suspected assailants invaded one of the villages in Oso Edda and beheaded four persons in the area.
The assailants took the heads of the deceased away after beheading them.
So many others sustained varying degrees of injuries in the attack while many indigenes of the community were abducted by the suspected assailants and have not been seen till now.
The state Commissioner for Internal Security, Chief Etta Ude who confirmed the incident on Friday morning, said security has been beefed up in the area.
“It is a fact. By 5pm on Thursday, I was called that some hoodlums, that’s what I call them. So, I was called that the hoodlums went into one of the villages in Oso Edda and massacred about four persons.
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