Five people have been arrested in connection with serial murders believed to be cult related in Asaba in the past week, police say.
Reports have been out of more than 10 murders in different parts of the city, but police said only three were cult related and under investigation.
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Speaking to Daily Trust on hone Saturday, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya disclosed that contrary to media reports, only three cult related killings.
There have been other killings in Ughelli, Sapele, Warri and Enerhen in Effurun, where a vigilante member was the victim.
Police said sporadic shootings were reported weekend at Sapele on the premises of an undisclosed hotel, and stray bullets hit two unsuspecting nearby persons, but no casualty was recorded.
It admitted the killing of a vigilante member at Enerhen in Effurun by unidentified gunmen was being investigated.
Two young men have been allegedly killed by rival cult group in Asaba, the state capital; one simply identified as Nnamdi was said to be shot dead at Stop-Abortion junction in Asaba on Tuesday evening.
Nnamdi, a staff of Oshimili South Local Government Council of the state was shot multiple times by a gang of four men, witnesses said.
The eyewitness account recounted the victim was about to mount a waiting motorcycle, when two men of the four in a swiftly driven car, alighted from the vehicle, walked to him and shot him repeatedly till death.
Thursday last week, Daily Trust gathered a suspected cult member was also shot to death at a pub by the popular Ibusa junction on Nnebisi road at about 8.30 pm in what seemed like a reprisal attack.
