Two dead in Bayelsa cult clash.
The Bayelsa Police Command on Monday said a teenager died during a cult clash on Saturday in Amarata area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa capital. Asinim Butswat, the Command’s spokesperson, confirmed that only one person died in the clash, the second person died at a robbery scene. The command had intensified patrol in the affected area to prevent further breakdown of law and order. The incident threw the area into pandemonium as residents witnessed the fight for supremacy between the two rival cult groups. A resident said that the groups used guns, cutlasses, axes and other dangerous weapons during the clash. The clash (which left two teenagers dead trough gunshot) lasted for an hour, without police or security agencies responding to distress calls. One of the teenage boy died at the federal medical centre where he was taken, the second one died durign the clash