The Rivers State Police Command, on Saturday, confirmed the death of one person during a clash between some youths and a local security outfit in the Degema Local Government Area of the state.
It was gathered that the crisis started when youths and other members of the community had gone to carry a corpse deposited at the Degema General Hospital for burial.
It was learnt that they were allegedly attacked by the armed security outfit called ‘Amama soldiers’ along the popular Degema market junction.
During the melee that broke out a yet-to-be-identified who was reportedly shot in the leg later died.
It took the intervention of a police team that arrived at the scene to quell the crisis and restore normalcy in the area.
Spokesperson for the State Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, who confirmed the incident said the Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu has ordered a full-scale investigation into the incident.
Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police added, “Already the Divisional Police Officer has deployed a patrol team and they are still in the community monitoring the situation.
