Three persons have reportedly sustained life-threatening injuries during an attack by suspected Eluku cultists in Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The attackers unleashed terror on a popular mosque, Zumuratul Mu’min Mosque in Amororo area of the town while vehicles and houses around the mosque were also destroyed.
According to reports, they poured boiling vegetable oil on three members of the mosque, two of which were admitted at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, OOUTH, whom were attacked on their way back from Iperu police station, where they had gone to report the attack.
It was gathered that the Eluku cult which is normally observed at the dead of the night stormed the community few minutes after 6pm on the faithful day during the burial of one of their leaders identified as Chief Deji Dalinton.
One of the victims, Nurein, who had his stomach, legs, hands and back burnt, said the three of them were on their way back from the police station when the cultist attacked them and poured boiling vegetable oil from a bean cake seller on them.
He said, “It was on Tuesday, we were not even at the scene when the incident happened but we were informed that our mosque had been attacked, we quickly rushed there only to find out that the mosque was destroyed.
“We were told that some members of the mosque had gone to the police station to report the case, we also took an Okada to the police station but on getting there, we were told our members had left
We were on our way back from the station when they waylaid us and poured boiling vegetable oil from a bean cake seller on us. Two of us were rejected by two hospitals before we later got here.”
Another victim of the attack, Alhaji Oremuyiwa Shakirullah narrated how his own car was destroyed where it was packed not far from another mosque.
Oremuyiwa who is the Imam of Ajise central mosque was at an Arabic school in Abanise mosque in Oke Maro when the cultist went on rampage and destroyed his car.
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