One shot dead, many injured as annual festival turns bloody in Delta community

One particular person has been killed after violence erupted throughout a neighborhood annual competition in Ughelli Kingdom in Delta State.

It was gathered that a number of individuals sustained various levels of accidents within the violence that broke out in Ekiugbo and Oto-Iwhreko communities on Thursday night, September 16, when some irate youths within the space reportedly resumed recent hostilities.

Spokesperson of the State Police Command, DSP Shiny Edafe, who confirmed the incident, mentioned that one person who was killed and never two as being extensively rumoured by residents.

The reason behind the fracas that led to the violent taking pictures of rival communal youths is sketchy on the time of this report.