BLOODY CLASH!! Many Feared Dead And Injured In Lagos Ketu Market As Rival Gangs Clash

A man has been reportedly killed and many others injured in the Ketu Market clash between rival gangs of miscreants at the Market in Lagos on Monday.

A witness who sells at the Ketu market, simply identified as Musiliu, said.:
“Some guys smoking Indian hemp in the market fought over the death of someone they gave overdose of the hemp. Afterwards, the miscreants were seen carrying the corpse about in the market chanting war songs and destroying anything on sight. I think that was when the policemen were called to intervene.

The police detachment from Ketu Police Station came and started shooting sporadically in the market while the miscreants were also seen facing them in spite of the shooting. The police later went reinforcement and that caused a lot of trouble as people started running helter-skelter in order not to be caught up in the crisis,” the witness said.

Chioma, another witness, said that the trouble started when the policemen were trying to repel an attack by the miscreants.

“We are tired of these jobless youths coming to Ketu to smoke Indian hemp in the market. They are causing trouble here in this market. It’s been long they have been smoking here causing trouble for us in the ketu market. The trouble today started with them, they are attacking those policemen that came to restore peace in the ketu market.
I think the policemen are not happy with their effrontery at repelling them, so the policemen went for reinforcement. Things got worse as the policemen came back to ketu, shooting sporadically into the air while people run for dear lives.”

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Speaking on the riot, spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Choke Oti said normalcy had been restored.
“Our men are there doing the needful. The police is proactive and we have been able to put the situation under control.
“The Lagos State Police Command will not relent until perpetrators are brought to book. The area is presently under survellance,” Mr Oti said.

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