Six members of a family have been killed in an early Sunday morning attack at a village near Wasimi on the Ibadan/Ife Higway, Osun State.
Though the identities of the gunmen is yet to be ascertained, police operatives, men of Oodua Peoples Congress and Hunters Group of Nigeria have been deployed in the bush in the area in hunt for them.
Confirming that attack, the Osun Police Command spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola, who revealed that all the deceased were members of the same family, said the state Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode, had visited the scene of the incident.