Breaking: Hausa, Yoruba traders clash at Mile 12 market

By OKOSUN DENNIS

A huge fight has broken out between the Yoruba traders and their Hausa counterparts at Milie 12 market along the Ketu-Ikorodu road, Lagos.

Although the cause of the fight is not yet known, a witness who called National Daily on phone said the traders are engaging one another in a fierce war deploying cutlasses, guns and other offensive weapons and burning down the market stalls.

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“As I am speaking to you now, people are running for safety. I am trapped in my car as I almost drove into the fight. Please, call the police and army to rescue the situation. They are shooting guns and using cutlass to machete people. It is a very serious situation,” he explained.

When contacted, the Lagos state Police spokesperson Superintendent Dolapo Badmos said that the police was on “top of the situation as they are about meeting with the market leaders with a view to ascertaining the circumstances that led to the fight.

She could not disclose whether anyone has been arrested but added that in the course of the day, the police will make a statement on the developments and number of culprits arrested.