Gunmen suspected to be cult members have shot dead a man identified as Sunday Okoro along Urhobo Road in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.
According to SaharaReporters, the attack was a suspected reprisal linked to the longstanding rivalry between the Vikings confraternity and the Eiye cult group, also known as the Air Lords or ACN.
Gunmen suspected to be cult members have shot dead a man identified as Sunday Okoro along Urhobo Road in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.
SaharaReporters learnt that the attack was a suspected reprisal linked to the longstanding rivalry between the Vikings confraternity and the Eiye cult group, also known as the Air Lords or ACN.
Community sources disclosed that the deceased was a prominent member of the Eiye confraternity.
Residents told SaharaReporters that Sunday, a married man with a child who worked offshore, had returned home from work on Friday before he was killed the following morning.
Eyewitnesses said he stepped out at about 8:00 a.m. on Saturday to meet friends in the area and stopped at a roadside shop to buy a drink when a tricycle conveying five young men arrived.
According to residents, the assailants called him aside, and he reportedly went with them willingly after identifying two members of the group.
“Nobody suspected anything because he knew two of them. It was when they moved slightly to a corner that the boys began to attack him,” an eyewitness said.
Witnesses said Sunday repeatedly called the names of two of the attackers while pleading for his life, but the assailants ignored him.
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