From Ifeoma Ejiofor
Tension rose to the crescendo in Nawfia and Enugwu-Ukwu communities of Anambra State as three unidentified persons were murdered at Isionye land.
Many people also sustained varying degrees of injuries inflicted on them by assailants.
Isionye land is the boundary between the two communities.
People from the Nawfia and Enugwu-Ukwu rushed to the scene of the crime when news broke out about the killing.
Sources claimed that the killing of the three victims may not be unconnected with tussle over Isionye land.
A source who pleaded for anonymity said that Nawfia and Enugwu-Ukwu communities have been on a dagger drawn over the ownership of the land.
Meanwhile, Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Nnaghe Obono Itam(CP) has ordered investigation into the murder of three persons.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the command, Tochukwu Ikenga (SP) said that the incident actually happened at about 2pm on Monday.
He confirmed that three persons were killed and five others seriously injured at Isionye land.
The PPRO said that preliminary information, revealed that the victims were lured by some individuals through a phone call to the land in guise of a land transaction and attacked them with guns and matchet.
“Meanwhile, the CP has sued for calm as police operatives have recovered the abandoned Sennia vehicle used by the murders. Also, the testimonies of the injured victims who are currently receiving treatment in the hospital is aiding the investigation while the bodies of the deceased have been deposited in the morgue,” Ikenga said.
Police operatives on Wednesday mounted checkpoints at strategic points between the two communities. I