Pandemonium erupt in Shasha market, on Friday, at Akinyele local government area of Oyo State, Ibadan as some traders engaged in a violent clash early morning.
The violent clash which got to its peak on Friday was said to have happened between the Yoruba and Hausa traders in the market.
There are diverse accounts of what led to the crisis as narrated by different sources.
The PUNCH correspondent, who visited Shasha, saw police patrol vans and Operation Burst’s going inside the market where the fight was said to have taken place.
Residents also said many security agents had moved to the epicentre of the violence to restore normalcy.
Some of them regretted that some kiosks and a house were razed.
However, claims on the cause of the fight could not be immediately ascertained.
But some Yoruba traders told our correspondent that they could not take away their goods (tomatoes and pepper) on Friday morning shortly before the fight started.
Residents of the area told our correspondent that the fight started on Wednesday night but it became fierce on Friday morning when a man was reportedly beaten with a charm by a Hausa man during the fight died.
Some of them said a woman mistakenly splashed water on a Hausa trader who beat her and this resulted in a fight that led to the death of the Yoruba man Friday morning.
Shops were huriedly shut while traders who had not bought anything fled the area.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo State, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, did not pick calls and he has yet to reply to the message sent to him on the incident.
