{"id":13301,"date":"2024-01-22T19:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T19:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/three-killed-as-cultists-clash-in-edo\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T19:03:25","slug":"three-killed-as-cultists-clash-in-edo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/three-killed-as-cultists-clash-in-edo\/","title":{"rendered":"Three killed as cultists clash in Edo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>No fewer than three persons have been reportedly killed in a renewed cult-related clash in Benin City, Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the deceased were allegedly killed in a clash between the Black Axe and the Eiye group.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was said to have happened on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the latest victims simply identified as Denco and Ariba were allegedly killed at a drinking joint at Igun junction between Igbesanmwan and Oza Street, off Sokponba Road in Benin.<\/p>\n<p>It was learnt that while Denco was accosted by the assailants at the drinking joint, Ariba was killed inside his room shortly after leaving the drinking joint.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the deceased, who was drunk, left the door of his room open while sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>The third victim was said to have been killed at 2nd East Circular area in the same day.<\/p>\n<p>The latest development has started sending shivers down the spines of residents in Benin.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that no fewer than 30 people including a journalist with a private broadcast station and vigilante heads were killed during a clash between members of the Black Axe and their rival Supreme Eiye Confraternities at the last Yuletide season in Benin.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Police Command, SP Chidi Nwanbuzor, said he was yet to be briefed on the incidents.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, not until we see our report coming from there (scene of crime), I will not be able to make a statement I don\u2019t know about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever I would say will be from the report that is coming from that place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Three killed as cultists clash in Edo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than three persons have been reportedly killed in a renewed cult-related clash in Benin City, Edo State. DAILY&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9378,2867,384,15],"tags":[319,2872,387,180],"class_list":["post-13301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clash","category-edo","category-metro","category-news","tag-clash","tag-edo","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}