The Edo State police command has denied reports that there was a clash between Igbo youths who are mainly traders clashed with Hausa traders at New Benin market in the state.
The command stated this in reaction t⁶o a viral video, which surfaced online on Saturday, that there was an ethnic clash between the Hausas and the Igbo traders.
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Reports say that a man who was purportedly known to belong to the Hausa ethnic group allegedly killed an Igbo man with a machete
Following the attack, there was pandemonium in the city centre as traders, commuters scampered for safety for fear of a reprisal attack.
In his reaction, to cook, the command’s spokesman, y5, said the clash in the state was not an ethical clash as reported by the media.
He stated that a young man whose name and address are unknown but profiled to be a mad man used cutlass to inflict bodily injuries on one Anthony Jibunor.