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OPC, cow dealers clash; dead bodies recovered
Kara market at Ajase-Ipo in Kwara erupted in violence as members of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) and cow dealers clashed on Friday.
No fewer the four people died in the fracas.
The clash also led to traffic jams along the Ilorin-Ajase-Ipo/Offa Road.
Okasanmi Ajayi, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer(PPRO) however said in a sateen peace has returned to the area.
He noted the incident arose as a result of the misunderstanding between some people suspected to be members of OPC and cow dealers in Kara market/
“Information received by Ajase-Ipo Divisional Police headquarters was to the effect that some OPC members in a convoy of about twenty vehicles, believed to have been coming from Osogbo, Osun state, were passing through the Kara market where a cow being led across the road by its handler broke the side mirror of one of the OPC vehicles/
“This resulted in an argument that eventually escalated into an exchange of gunfire by both the OPC members and the cow dealers in the market.
“Four lifeless bodies of unidentified people were recovered at the scene.”
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