Nigeria: Seven Die in Cross River Communal Clash

17 January 2013

Calabar — NO fewer than seven persons were feared dead in a renewed communal clash between the people of Adadama and Igbo Amabana in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State.

It was gathered that hostilities between the neighbouring communities started on Sunday night and raged till Monday, as the two communities in a show of supremacy attacked each other with guns and matchetes.

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