The annual New Yam festival has claimed 15 lives in a bloody clash at Nibo community, Awka, Anambra State.
Details of the gory incident have remained sketchy but sources said at about 12pm on Sunday, October 20th, about 15 casualties had been recorded.
Several others were injured and hospitalised.
In a clip that has gone viral, corpses of the dead were seen in the pools of blood while indigenes bemoaned the ugly incident.
The state Commissioner of Police, Nnaghe Obono Itam, has ordered immediate deployment of additional operatives to the area.
The Command calls on witnesses to volunteer information that can lead to the arrest of the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
The police boss said Information shall be treated with utmost confidentiality.
He enjoined citizens to call the Command’s Control Room on 07039194332 or the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) on 08039334002