Nigeria: Thirteen Injured as Islamic Sects Clash in Ibadan

23 August 2010

Ibadan — Thirteen people were yesterday injured while houses and Mosques were vandalised in an inter-Islamic sects combustion in Sabo area of Ibadan over the control of the Sabo area between the Izalla and the Darikat Islamic sects.

By the time the skirmish subsided, blood stains and carcasses of vandalized buildings littered the area as weapons wielding youths patrolled the area, in search of rival sect members to attack.

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