The communal clash between Ilobu and Ifon of Osun State has escalated to neighbouring community, Erin-Osun, leading to the displacement of more residents of the towns.

Governor Ademola Adeleke has, however, imposed a 24-hour curfew on the communities whose indigenes have been unleashing violence on one another as a result of boundary disputes.

Sunday PUNCH gathered that the warring Ilobu and Ifon communities continued the violent attacks on Saturday, and moved to Erin-Osun where houses were reportedly torched.

Our correspondent who visited Okinni, the next community to Ilobu along Osogbo/Ogbomoso Road, observed large number of displaced people, who had set a camp near the road.

Many residents of Ifon and Ilobu had been moving out of the communities since Friday.

However, following spread of the crises to Erin Osun in the early hours of Saturday, more residents fleeing from the mayhem had moved to Gaa in Ido Osun and Okinni, to escape being caught in the crossfire.

Many of the displaced persons, it was also learnt, moved into accommodations provided by their relatives in Osogbo, the state capital, with several others reportedly seeking refuge in mosques and churches.

During the visit, Sunday PUNCH also observed that some were conveying many northerners residing in the troubled communities to Kano State.




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