Ebonyi State police command, has confirmed the arrest of three cultists allegedly responsible for the death of 19-year-old Micheal Okoro, at the weekend at his residence at Oroko Onuoha street in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi state.
Briefing journalists in Abakaliki, on Thursday, the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP, Loveth Odah said the victim was killed by a rival cult group when the two groups, Junior Python and Black Pander cult clashed.
Odah said: “Cult boys clashed at Oroke-Onuoha. The police swung into action and arrested about three of them. In the course of the clash, one person died.
“He was not murdered but he died during the cult clash. He resides in Kpirikpiri but he was not killed in Kpirikpiri. One person was injured and he later died.
“The suspects we arrested confessed that it was a cult clash. We have started investigating the matter”, she said
