Fresh Cult violence has been recorded in a community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, with at least five persons feared killed.
It was gathered that two rival cult groups clashed at Egbeda community in the area, killing a young man who was identified as Ben.
A source within the area, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, alleged that the rival cult group in a reprisal attack over the murder of Ben, who he said just returned from Law School, killed four persons.
He said that the development had forced some inhabitants of the community to flee their homes for fear of being attacked.
It has also been gathered that suspected cultists have continued to lay siege on the link road between Omurele through Egbeda and Omudiogwa communities to kidnap, rob and rape inhabitants.
Ikwerre Local Government Area has been at the centre of cult violence, with at least 24 people killed, within the last two months.
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