Oleh / Ozoro killings: Death toll raises to 11

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By Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

Following the killings in Oleh and Ozoro Kingdoms’ in Delta State where nine persons were killed, a search party has recovered two more corpses believed to be among the casualties from the killings over land dispute in Oleh Community.
Recall that nine persons were dastardly killed recently in a communal crisis between Oleh and Ozoro communities and several others declared missing, a situation that had in the last few weeks attracted top Isoko sons and daughters for both communities to ceasefire and embrace peaceful coexistence.
It was gathered that the two corpses recovered were already decomposing and mutilated as they were recovered at different parts of the forest by the search party, while the Identified corpses were mainly teenagers of about 15 years with one of them a J SS3 student allegedly hired for the dirty job.
Meanwhile, the eldest daughter of one of the deceased persons, Mr Friday Igeme alongside four others, decried the gruesome murder of her father.

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