Two farmers killed, three injured in Ekiti
Sources identified one of the dead as Mr. Danjuma Ali, a farmer. The identity of the second person, whose body has been deposited in the morgue of the General Hospital, Ikole-Ekiti, is yet to be known as at the time of going to the press.
The source said: “It has happened again today; it has been a recurrent killing. Some herders called Bororo stormed the farmstead and shot these innocent people.“They came around 1a.m. and were there till dawn. Our farmers are all afraid to go to their farms. They all rushed to the palace of Oba Ebenezer Agboola Ogungbemi, the Olu of Iyemero-Ekiti, to take refuge.
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