Sunday Oji, a 20-year-old student of Comprehensive Secondary School, Ogwuma Village, in Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, said he narrowly escaped being buried alive by suspected cul
tists.reports that some communities in the LGA have, in the past one month, enmeshed in bloody cult clashes.
The victim, who had matchet cuts all over his body, explained that it took the intervention of local hunters for him to escape the plot. “Before I could finish speaking, the other person interrupted me and said I should follow them. Before I knew what was happening, they started heating and stabbing me, saying I was the one who shot their member. They bundled me on one of the bikes and zoomed off to Ekoli where they dug a pit, threw me in, and covered me with sand up to chest level. I was inside there suffocating, shouting when they heard the footsteps of people coming and ran away.
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