(2:51am) Midnight, 23rd of October, and there have been multiple reports of shootings, breaking ins and arsons at Oyigbo, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, OYOGist.com has gathered.
Several Twitter users have also corroborated this report and many have given harrowing accounts of the perpetrators breaking into people houses.
Currently, OYOGist.com is unable to independently verify the scale of the attacks, but we’ll relay what many sources have reported here.
In a series of emergency messages sent out, a user said the attacks are being carried out by “Hause people from Yam zone area”.
There are also alleged reports of burning of filling stations as well.
Some other accounts said the shootings would dwarf the ones carried out at the Lekki Toll Plaza when the day breaks.
Another user says the members of the community are defending themselves and have armed themselves with machetes to fight back the bandits.
According to another user report, the attacks are allegedly retaliation for killing one of the Fulani herdsmen that live at Yam Zone.
The area, according to user report, is reputed for being a no-response zone to law-enforcement.
Please, come back for more updates as this is a breaking news.
