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Strange fire kills 2, displaces 100 households in Taraba
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By Femi Bolaji
It started with a windstorm that initially brought a sigh of relief for residents of the community who had been anticipating rain, having endured the scourge of the hot season for some months running.
They were also preparing to return to the farm and had stored up grains and some food crops to sustain them all through the anticipated rainy season.
But their joy was cut short by the first blast of the raging wind storm, which triggered a wave of strange fire in Bandawa Community of Taraba State.
Daily Post Nigeria
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Operatives of Anti-Cultism Unit of Rivers State Police Command are investigating eighteen suspected hoodlums apprehended by members of Rumuagholu Security Peace and Advisory committee in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area the State.
DAILY POST gathered that the eighteen suspected hoodlums, including a native doctor and a man suspected to be a security agent, were caught in a bush in Rumuagholu community around 2am performing some rituals.
The leader of the local vigilante in the Community, Henry Nyebuchi-Amadi, who confirmed the incident, said the suspects were arrested on Monday during a routine patrol by his group.
In his words, “During our routine patrol, we stumbled on some group of persons performing some sort of initiation, we then involved the police.