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On Thursday, fighting broke out at Omu-Aran in Kwara when a police patrol team and some naval personnel attached to a retired former chief of naval staff engaged in a brawl.
The fighting which started before mid-day made residents of the town to scamper for safety. It took the intervention of an army patrol team on a special assignment in the town before the fracas could be quelled.
Canisters of tear gas were fired before the warring parties could be dispersed, a development that paralysed traffic in the town. Vehicular movement on Aperan Way, the major road in the town, linking the state with the neighbouring Ekiti State, was blocked as a result of the fracas.
Throwing light on the incident, an eyewitness who spoke to news correspondents said, that the police patrol team from the Omu-Aran Police Command accosted a navy personnel, who had escorted the wife of his boss to the market.
"I was standing right here and the police patrol team accosted the navy personnel, who had come to the market with wife of retired Vice-Adm. Samuel Afolayan. I think there was a kind of misunderstanding between them and within a few seconds the disagreement had turned into a physical combat before the intervention of the army", the anonymous eyewitness added.
Normalcy has long returned to the town following the intervention of the army.
The fighting which started before mid-day made residents of the town to scamper for safety. It took the intervention of an army patrol team on a special assignment in the town before the fracas could be quelled.
Canisters of tear gas were fired before the warring parties could be dispersed, a development that paralysed traffic in the town. Vehicular movement on Aperan Way, the major road in the town, linking the state with the neighbouring Ekiti State, was blocked as a result of the fracas.
Throwing light on the incident, an eyewitness who spoke to news correspondents said, that the police patrol team from the Omu-Aran Police Command accosted a navy personnel, who had escorted the wife of his boss to the market.
"I was standing right here and the police patrol team accosted the navy personnel, who had come to the market with wife of retired Vice-Adm. Samuel Afolayan. I think there was a kind of misunderstanding between them and within a few seconds the disagreement had turned into a physical combat before the intervention of the army", the anonymous eyewitness added.
Normalcy has long returned to the town following the intervention of the army.
