No fewer than three persons have been killed in Bayelsa State following a cult war involving two rival cult groups named Icelanders and Bobos.
It was gathered that five persons also sustained injuries in the incident, which happened on Monday around the Green Villa and Customs roads in Biogbolo suburb of Yenagoa.
Also, a female restaurant operator, identified as Madam Odey in the area, was said to have had her jaw torn apart by the stray bullet of the cultists, while two others received fatal gunshot wounds.
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