By Okey Maduforo Awka
At least seven more persons were killed in Awka Capital Anambra state this Thursday morning bearly five days after the killing of sixteen suspected cultists in Nibo Awka South local government area.
It was gathered that one person was killed behind Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka back gate while six others were killed at Ifite Village in Awka Capital City.
A lecturer who was an eye witness to the killing behind UNIZik said the victim was killed at about 9,30 am this morning while traders at Ifite market Awka reported how gunmen stormed the area firing indiscriminately and killing the other six in the process.
Confirming the incident the Anambra Police Public Relations Officer SP Tochikwu Ikenga said that a rapid response team has been sent to the scenes of the killings to avert further killings in the area .
At the moment it is not clear the cult group that is involved in the dastardly act but it is being suspected that this may be a reprisal to the killings that occured at Nibo last Sunday .
Fresh facts has further emerged that the Nibo killing was a planned attack on members of a revival cult group that had slated to hold a function at the town but before the rival cult group could get to their opposing cult group they had concluded the function.
It was also learnt that when the gunmen stormed Nibo Market they met only two members of the rival cult group who they killed on that fateful day and also killed others at a restaurant beloved to be the venue of the cult function.
