Nigeria, March 28 -- In a suspected resurgence of cult killings, three persons have been brutally killed within one week in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

The incidents coincided with the first annivesary of the death of a notorious area boy known as Tommy, suspected to be a leader of the Eiye cult group. He was hacked to death on 24 March, at the popular Panseke Market in Abeokuta.

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In attacks susected to be reprisals for his killing, over 16 persons were killed across the state allegedly by the Eiye and Aiye confraternity groups.

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To stop the crisis, the police arrested scores of the suspected killers.

Exactly a year after Tommy was murdered, a young man was reportedly shot dead at Panseke by yet-to-be identified pers...