Ado-Ekiti – Oke Ako community in Ikole Local government area
of Ekiti State, was on Friday night thrown into mourning, wailing and gnashing
of teeth, as suspected killer herdsmen invaded the town, leaving in its wake,
two dead men and several others wounded.
One of those injured by the killer herdsman in Ekiti state
Eyewitness told journalists that the incident in which the
entire village was sacked occurred at about 8:00 pm on Friday.
A woman, who identified herself as Mrs Grace Olofin, had
during in a telephone chat alleged that the killer herdsmen invaded the
community in large numbers, caught the people of the community unawares, adding
that the invaders were armed with dangerous weapons like automatic guns, bows,
arrows, swords, matchetes, hacking and mauling their victims with reckless
abandon.
Olofin further alleged majority of the villagers had to
scamper for safety in the bushes to escape the onslaught of the killer
herdsmen, who according to her were hacking the hapless villagers with their
deadly weapons.
She said the invaders had shot sporadically into the air and
killed one Lekan Arosanyin and a yet to be identified person, while four others
sustained various degrees of injuries and were said to be receiving treatment
at a private hospital in Ado Ekiti, the state capital.
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