7 Feared Dead In Ijora Mayhem
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Author: Date: Jun 30th, 2010. | Category: Metro, News. | Follow comments: RSS 2.0. | You can leave a response below. |
At least seven persons have been reported killed while several others were severely injured as Hausas and Yorubas in Ijora Oloye, Lagos State, Nigeria, clashed early this morning.

P.M.NEWS correspondent at the scene of the incident gathered from eyewitnesses that the fight started at about 6. a.m. today when two young men, a Hausa and a Yoruba had a quarrel and started fighting in an Indian hemp joint where both of them had gone to smoke.

The fight was said to have degenerated into an ethnic one, when the Hausas and Yorubas in the locality took sides and joined in the fight.

Weapons such as broken bottles, dagger, knives and cutlasses were freely used by them.

However, over 1,000 policemen from different police commands in Lagos State have been drafted to the area to bring the situation under control.

At the time of filing this report, normalcy had returned to the area, but policemen can be seen patrolling the area, while they stopped and check passers-by.

There was been no official reaction to the clash as at press time.

—Cyriacus Izuekwe

Why should we bother ourselves about two unserious people who have had an overdose of indian hemp? Its truly "much ado about nothing"

P.M.NEWS correspondent at the scene of the incident gathered from eyewitnesses that the fight started at about 6. a.m. today when two young men, a Hausa and a Yoruba had a quarrel and started fighting in an Indian hemp joint where both of them had gone to smoke.

so folks decided to leave their homes/workplace to join two amugbos in a fight? na wa o

^^,
AND to cap the absordity of it , 7 lives gone.just like that.

Nonsense!

This is a joke.
Inu ti n bi awon omo Yoruba die die, one day one day.

yeah, inu n bi won, and they are killing each other as a result? Abegi!!! ROFLMAO!!

Kobojunkie:

yeah, inu n bi won, and they are killing each other as a result? Abegi!!! ROFLMAO!!

lol kilo fa erin? I'm not saying its a good thing, am just saying that "when a goat is backed into a corner, it bites". What they did was very foolish. . . . lol, lack of employment, lack of money. I dont think if these ppl had any job to do, they'll gather in plenty to fight ni igboro.

lack of money isn't an excuse for sectarian violence.