A suspected cult clash has claimed four lives in Benue State.
The clash occurred at North Bank, a suburb in Makurdi, the state capital.
Residents of the area narrated that suspected cultists engaged in a battle of supremacy killed four persons within one week.
A building was also burned down on Tuesday as the fight between the rival cult groups escalated.
The residents claimed that two cult groups, popularly referred to as Black and Red respectively, had turned the North Bank vicinity into a war zone, causing people to scamper to the nearest safe place.
“Government should act now, or else more people will be wiped away by these cult boys. There was another killing yesterday (Monday) and even up to this moment (Tuesday afternoon), we can hear gunshots,” one resident said on Tuesday.
“Currently, arrangements are underway to bury the victim of yesterday’s cult clash. This afternoon, a house was set on fire on Ter-Guma Street. Many incidents here go unreported. These criminals now attack people indiscriminately, whether they are part of a cult group or not.”
The Commander of a local vigilante group known as Operation Shara (Sweep) in North Bank, Nura Umar, stated that the latest killing occured about 9pm on Monday, adding that another person had been killed earlier.
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