A student of the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, has been killed and another shot in a supremacy battle which erupted between two rivals cult groups in the institution.

globalvoice gathered that the incident started on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, when the 300-level student in the department of Geography Department, Faculty of Social Sciences was shot dead by some suspected cultists.

After the death of the student identified as Duke Alexander, a reprisal attack was launched by a rival group the next day.

"A student from the Department of Geography was killed on Tuesday. But, on Wednesday around 5 pm, we heard some gunshots in the Department of Fine Art and on getting there discovered that a final year student was shot. He was said to be rushed to an undisclosed hospital where he is undergoing treatment,” a source said.