A clash in Ogbor Hill area of Aba, Abia state yesterday left 14 Hausas and 2 Igbos killed.
The cause of the clash was as a result of a debt owed to a Hausa trader by an Igbo butcher.
The lender was said to have called a soldier, also an Hausa, to help him retrieve his money from the debtor.
In the process of trying to get the money from the Igbo butcher, the soldier was reported to have shot him in the back and he died on the spot.
The soldier in a bid to take the body away was prevented by a gathered mob.
This led to a protest by butchers in Aba, who got violent and went on a killing spree of Hausa shoemakers and any Hausa person in sight.
The butchers took their protest to 7up junction in Ogbor Hill where they mounted barricades and constituted further violence.
Security agencies were drafted to the area and order was momentarily returned.
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