5 KILLED IN BAYELSA COMMUNAL CLASH

No fewer than five persons were killed on Friday in Bayelsa State
following a communal clash between Agudama-Epie and Akenfa communities in Yenagoa Local...
Government Area of the state.
Agudama-Epie is the host to the South-South Campus of the Nigerian Law
School and Central Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy.
Sources said the two communities were fighting over a disputed
farmland behind the Law School.
Both communities are located on the outskirts of Yenagoa, the state capital.
The five victims, said to be indigenes of Aguama-Epie, were killed on
the disputed land in the early hours of Friday.
It was learnt that attackers from both communities were armed with
dangerous weapons such as guns and machetes.
One of the corpses of the victims was said to have been recovered
while four were still being searched for as of press time.
It was further learnt that the land had been a source of dispute for
many years with occasional threats by both communities.
But Friday's clash, it was gathered, was triggered by the presence of
some members of a committee set up to resolve the dispute on the
disputed land.
"The fight is caused by a land dispute. It has been there. They set up
a committee to resolve the issue. The committee went to the land.
Their presence triggered the fight," a security source said.

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