Five people were shot dead while seven others sustained various injuries at the Niger Bridge Head, when members of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, of Biafra, clashed with the Joint Task Force, JTF, which comprised of the Army and the Police, yesterday.
Four of the victims shot dead were members of IPOB, while one person is said to be a soldier, who was grabbed by the mob, angry with the way soldiers opened fire on the jubilating crowd that included non pro-Biafra agitators, and fell four of them before they ran, leaving the victims behind.
All the markets around the Niger Bridge Head, including the Bridge Head Market, Onitsha Patent and Propitiatory Medicine Dealers Market (Ogbo Ogwu Market) and other markets located around the bridge, including Abada Market were quickly shut down, following sporadic shooting by the military to scare the jubilant crowd on Thursday,
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