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One Shot Dead, Many Injured As Annual Festival Turns Bloody In Delta

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Tragedy struck on Thursday in Ughelli Kingdom in Delta State as violence erupted during a community annual festival, leaving one person dead and many others injured.

BIGPENNGR understands that the violence broke out when some irate youths in the area reportedly resumed fresh hostilities during the festival.

Local sources revealed that.several persons sustained varying degrees of injuries in the violence that broke out in Ekiugbo and Oto-Iwhreko communities on Thursday evening, September 16, 2021.

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Spokesperson of the State Police Command, DSP Bright Edafe, who confirmed the incident, said that one person that was killed and not two as being widely rumoured by residents.

The cause of the fracas that led to the violent shooting of rival communal youths is sketchy at the time of this report.

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