No fewer than twelve persons have been injured in a violent communal clash between Ipetumodu and Ashipa in Ife North Local Government Area of Osun State.
Trouble reportedly started on Wednesday when youths of the two communities clashed at an inter house sport competition held of the Community High School, Ipetumodu, a few meters from Ashipa.
Dangerous weapons like cutlasses, clubs, knives, broken bottles, axes were allegedly used by the youths before the police came to disperse them and bring the situation under control.
It was gathered that by Thursday night the Ashipa youths allegedly set the Akinola Market in Ipetumodu on fire and simultaneously shooting sporadically into the air to scare the residents of Ipetumodu.
An Ipetumodu chief, Adedeji Asalu, accused the Ashipa of initiating the clash.
But a community leader in Ashipa, Chief Julius Ogerinde, said it was not true that the clash was started by the youths of Ashpa
According to him, the people of Ipetumodu was not happy because result of the white paper released by the government on the ownership of the land where the Akinola market was contructed was not in their favour.
Meanwhile, the Police Public Relations Officer, Folasade Odoro, said normalcy jas returned to the two communities.
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