Three persons have been arrested after sporadic shooting Thursday at Bimbagu near Nakpanduri in the Northern region in what is suspected to be a spillover of a conflict between two Bimoaba clans living in Sayeegu and Sabriluk.
Armed soldiers have been deployed to quell further escalations and diffuse tensions after alleged members of the Tanmung clan stormed the village to show anger and dissatisfaction at the way authorities were handling the murder of the Sayeegu Chief, their clansman.
The Sayeegu Chief together with his heir and other family members were gunned down in an ambush on his farmland in April this year when violence between the Tanmung and Boukteeb clans in Sayeegu and Sanbriluk erupted.
The District police commander, ASP Stephen Delaport who confirmed the incident to Adom News said the people begun shooting after a meeting Thursday at the palace of the Bimbagu chief who is mediating the matter following the killing of the traditional ruler.
He said members of the Tanmung clan accused a man belonging to the Bouktab clan of murdering the chief and his family and hauled him before the chief of Bimbagu.
Already angered by the slow pace at which investigation into the killing of the clansman, members of the Tanmung clan left the palace unsatisfied.
Gunshots were later heard blazing heavily across the village.
Soldiers from the military camp in Nakpanduri were deployed and they secured the chief palace before a reinforcement of armed police men arrived.
Three persons were picked up by the security forces and have been sent to Bunkpurugu, the district capital.