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<\/p>\nThere had been a heightened tension at the area this weekend when some youths from the area went on rampage following a disagreement that ensued.<\/p>\n
Crisis started after the driver of a truck parked at the entrance of a mortuary at the area.<\/p>\n
The owner of the mortuary, known as Catechist, had accosted the truck driver over the parking when a fight broke out.<\/p>\n
The driver was said to have stabbed Catechist with a dagger during the fight.<\/p>\n
The injured man was thereafter rushed to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital but his condition is said to be uncertain at the time of this report.<\/p>\n
Angered by the development, the youth of the community went on rampage destroying some trucks.<\/p>\n
The tanker driver and his colleague was said to have escaped but were apprehended around Emohua local government area and was allegedly beaten by the angry youths.<\/p>\n
The popular yam zone market was also affected during the crisis.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Police in Rivers state have assured residents of Rumuosi of frequent security patrol.<\/p>\n
Spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni told DAILY POST that the frequent patrol is needed to forestall any breakdown of order.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe incident that happened is regrettable and it could have been avoided. Rumuosi is a peaceful community. We are surprised that there was such an occurrence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have arrested some of those who led the attack on the Northern community and they are helping us with information.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we have done as a command is to direct our patrol teams to frequent Rumuosi. We have restored normalcy and we want to encourage people to go about their normal businesses,\u201d Omoni said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Calm has returned to the Rumuosi axis of the East West Road in Obio-Akpor local government area of Rivers state following heavy presence of security operatives in the area. There had been a heightened tension at the area this weekend when some youths from the area went on rampage following a disagreement that ensued. Crisis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[7123,4154,61],"class_list":["post-68438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-communal-clash","tag-cross-river","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}