The Will
26 April 2011
UYO, April 26, (THEWILL) – Security reports reaching THEWILL indicate that at least five (5) persons may have been killed and many others wounded as a result of electoral violence in Ibiono Ibom, Nsit Atai and Uyo areas of Akwa Ibom State.
Though security was tight statewide our correspondent gathered that the violence resulted when heavily armed youths suspected to be members of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stormed some polling units in Ibiono to snatch ballot boxes and in the process shot sporadically killing three persons.
In Ibiono ward 5, unit 5 in particular, some youth corps members who were used as ad-hoc staff for the exercise were seriously wounded.
Also in Nsit Atai, two people were reportedly killed in similar circumstances, even as a victim who was shot in Uyo, the state capital was taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical treatment.
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