Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
There was pandemonium yesterday in Aluu in Ikwerre local Government area of Rivers state as no fewer than 20 persons were feared dead and several houses razed in the communities.
Gunmen alleged to be cult gangs on motorbikes were said to have moved in groups on arriving in Aluu and started shooting at people sporadically and simultaneously.
It was learnt that men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad,SARS,had difficulty in containing the hoodlums until soldiers arrived.
At time of this report, military personnel in conjunction with other security agencies, are carrying raid in Aluu in search of suspected hoodlums.
Army rescued the Chief of Mbodo community in Omuike-Aluu in the course of raid. He was kidnapped last week.